Stories from the Front Lines
Uncover a few of the many stories from our team's engagements with clients across various industries. These are just a few of the War Stories of Paradoxical Security's Unsung Heroes.
Breach and Clear: Securing Our Client's Front Doors
In a critical operation, our team unearthed a series of zero-day vulnerabilities in a widely-used Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution, employed by a healthcare insurance provider. This flaw could bypass all security measures, potentially exposing sensitive patient data and financial information. Our prompt discovery led to immediate remediation, preventing a major breach and securing the privacy of millions.
Irony Strikes: Crypto Mining in a Financial Institution
During an engagement with a financial client, our team exploited a newly disclosed vulnerability, compromising one of the client's systems. The surprise came when we found a crypto miner on the compromised system, indicating a prior breach. This discovery triggered a full-scale investigation, revealing an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group that had been operating undetected on the client's systems for years.
Operation Domain Dominance: A Tale of Complete Domain Takeover
Through a combination of social engineering and technical exploitation, our red team achieved complete domain takeover of a Fortune 500 company's Active Directory infrastructure. Starting from a single phishing email, we demonstrated how an attacker could escalate privileges to gain full control of the organization's most critical systems.