Adversary Emulation & Attacker-Perspective Advisory
Understand exactly how a determined criminal would target you — their tools, techniques and decision-making — replicated defensively under contract. It's the attacker's mindset, applied to make you harder to hit.
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What this means. An authorized Solvex administrator registered and approved this exact public identity. What it does not. Solvex has not inspected the account on the platform, and this is not the platform's own verification.
Solvex specialists never ask for your passwords, recovery phrases, one-time codes, or payments to a personal account. Work, scope and invoices are agreed in writing through the official channels on this site.
Signed authorization required. This engagement is performed only against systems you own or are contractually authorized to have tested, under an agreed scope. See the responsible testing policy.
What's covered
- Threat-actor profiling relevant to your industry and assets
- Emulation of real-world tactics, techniques and procedures (ATT&CK)
- Attacker-perspective review of your defences and likely paths
- Scenario planning for the threats that matter most to you
- Prioritised, defence-focused recommendations
- Briefings for technical teams and leadership
What you receive
- Threat-actor and TTP profile for your context
- Attacker's-eye assessment of your exposure
- Prioritised defensive roadmap
- Executive threat briefing
- Attestation of lawful, defensive intent
Evidence and reporting
How the work is kept honest- Evidence, frozen at issuanceFindings tie to something observed. When the report is issued, the evidence behind it is frozen in the same transaction and cannot be edited afterwards.
- A signed reportAn Ed25519 signature covers both the report content and the delivered file. Alter a byte of either and verification fails.
- Signed scope firstTesting starts only after written scope and signed authorization for systems you own or are entitled to have tested.
Anyone holding a Solvex report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents.
Our boundaries
What this engagement does not do, stated before it starts.
- Strictly defensive — we never provide offensive tooling or services against third parties
- No targeting, tracking or profiling of private individuals
- No illegal techniques, only lawful defensive emulation under contract
- Advisory output; any live testing is separately scoped and authorised
How this engagement runs
- 01
Intake
Tell us the system, the goal and the constraints. If the work is not a good fit, we say so before anyone is invoiced.
- 02
Scope and authorization
Written scope and signed authorization before anything is touched. Security testing runs only against systems you own or are contractually entitled to have tested.
- 03
Investigation or build
Specialists matched to the work. Findings are proven by hand — scanner output is a lead, never a finding.
- 04
Evidence
Every finding ties to something observed. When a report is issued, its evidence is frozen in the same transaction, so what backed the report cannot change afterwards.
- 05
Delivery
A signed report: an Ed25519 signature over both the content and the file, with a short verification reference you can read down a phone.
- 06
Verification and retest
Anyone holding the report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents. Fixes are retested as part of the engagement — “fixed” means we confirmed it.
Questions we are asked
- Is this offensive hacking for hire?
- No. This is the responsible reframe of 'black-hat consultation': we replicate criminal tradecraft defensively, under contract, only against your own systems and threat model — never against third parties. The goal is to strengthen your defences.
- Who is this for?
- Organisations that want to understand a specific, credible threat — a ransomware crew, a fraud ring, a nation-state pattern — and harden against exactly how that actor operates.
- What do you deliver?
- A clear picture of how a relevant adversary would approach you and a prioritised plan to close the paths they'd use. Any hands-on emulation is scoped and authorised separately.
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