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Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) like Lazarus Group target both Web2 and Web3 businesses, running compromises that last months or years to extract financial assets and confidential data.
HYDN’s Red Team runs tailored attacks against your organisation using the same tactics, tools, and mindsets as APT operators. We circumvent your network controls, surface the weaknesses that matter, and show your team exactly how to close them.
Every engagement uses stealth and evasion to reach predetermined goals and ends with a full debrief covering the techniques used, gaps found, and concrete remediation steps.
APT attacks on the rise...
Lazarus Group, North Korea’s state-backed hacking collective, has drained over $6 billion from the blockchain industry since 2017, targeting exchanges, DeFi platforms, bridges and wallet providers.
April 2026 alone saw two coordinated heists: Drift Protocol ($286M) and KelpDAO ($290M), together accounting for 76% of all crypto hack value that month. February 2025’s $1.5B Bybit attack remains the largest single crypto theft on record.
✅ Supply chain & bridge attacks are escalating
✅ Lazarus Group has stolen over $6B+ from crypto firms
✅ Social engineering & wallet exploits remain major risks
How would your team react if a hacker gained access to your internal systems? HYDN’s Red Team simulates internal attacks to identify and remediate vulnerabilities, and test, measure and improve your team's risk detection and incident response.
HYDN's Adversarial Attack Simulation methodology is crafted for authenticity, realism, and practicality, combining technical prowess with a consultative approach to align with your needs. By integrating into an organisation's security tech stack, HYDN’s simulation aids in detailed analyses of successful vs blocked attacks, enhances visibility into the effectiveness of defensive controls and security monitoring programs, and aids in creating a data-driven framework for risk prioritisation and remediation strategies.
Identify and remediate gaps in your security measures and monitoring programs.
Assessment of your security defenses, coupled with providing a detailed strategy to mitigate risk from attacks.
Validate the efficacy of security programs, tools, and controls in countering industry-specific attacker techniques.
Improve your security monitoring and detection capabilities with feedback and remediation advice from HYDN.
Identify and track your organisation's attack surface available to attackers, helping to reduce exposure to harmful threat actors.
HYDN's Red Team is made up of highly experienced specialists with over 40 years of experience working to stop Advanced Persistent Threat groups such as Lazarus Group, Kasablanka Group, MuddyWater, and more.
They answer different questions. A penetration test asks what is broken. A red team engagement asks whether you would notice an adversary who is already inside, and what you would do about it.
Broad coverage of a defined scope, surfacing as many exploitable weaknesses as possible so you can fix them.
An objective driven campaign run the way a real adversary would run it, measuring your detection, response and containment rather than counting bugs.
Real adversaries do not restrict themselves to your network. Neither do we. HYDN runs full spectrum adversarial simulation across technology, people and physical access, because that is how groups like Lazarus actually operate.
Networks, cloud, applications, APIs and internal systems. We establish a foothold, escalate privilege and move laterally toward a defined objective, exactly as an APT operator would.
Phishing, vishing and pretexting against your team. People remain the most reliable way into a well defended organisation, and testing them tells you more about your real posture than any scan.
On site access attempts, tailgating and hardware implants. Rare in web3 security offerings and genuinely revealing, because a laptop left unattended can undo every technical control you own.
We start from a compromised position rather than the perimeter. This tests what actually matters once prevention has failed: whether you detect the intruder, how fast, and whether you can contain them.
Red teaming for blockchain organisations goes past the contract. Key custody, multisig processes, treasury controls, validator and node infrastructure, and the operational procedures that protect them.
Red teaming for dApps covers the front end, deployment pipeline, admin tooling and third party integrations. The places where an attacker reaches your users without ever breaking your contract.
Adversarial simulation, also called adversary simulation or a red team engagement, is a covert exercise that replicates the tactics, techniques and procedures of a real threat actor against your organisation. The goal is to measure whether you detect, respond to and contain a genuine attack, not to produce a list of vulnerabilities.
A penetration test finds as many vulnerabilities as it can within an agreed scope, and your team usually knows it is happening. A red team engagement is covert and objective driven, testing your detection and response against a realistic adversary. Pen tests measure what is broken. Red teams measure whether you would notice.
Technical infrastructure, social engineering, physical intrusion and insider or assumed breach scenarios. For blockchain organisations that also covers key custody, treasury controls, validator infrastructure, dApp front ends and deployment pipelines. Scope is agreed with you before anything begins.
Yes, and it is where we are strongest. Blockchain red teaming reaches past the smart contract into key management, multisig procedures, treasury operations, node infrastructure and the people who administer them. Most crypto losses come from those layers rather than the contract itself.
Usually only a small group of executives and your legal counsel. Keeping the wider security and engineering teams unaware is the point, because it is the only way to measure how your people and processes genuinely behave under a real attack rather than a scheduled test.
Red teaming assumes you already have defences worth testing. If you have no monitoring or detection in place, a penetration test or smart contract audit will give you far more value for the money. We will tell you honestly if that is the case rather than sell you the larger engagement.
HYDN Red Team Engagement