The Challenge A technology company approached Nisos after it appeared some of their source code and intellectual property was leaked. The client discovered the issue after identifying a series of emails that had been sent to one of their engineers from a foreign...
The Challenge A multinational energy company (the client) operating in a volatile, foreign nation was faced with threats of violence directed at its personnel and infrastructure. In the interest of safety, the client arranged for many of its personnel to depart the...
The Challenge A job recruiting platform approached Nisos to determine the severity and authenticity of an affiliate recruiting company that appeared to be involved with disinformation and foreign nation state espionage efforts. The foreign nation state was suspected...
The ChallengeA technology company tasked Nisos to conduct a threat evaluation assessment on one of their executives after multiple internet forum users posted inflammatory, threatening, and racially derogatory content.More concerning, some forum users posted the...
The Challenge A technology company noticed a disturbing increase in malicious activity across their platform. Unknown individuals were selling bots that claimed to automate interactions with their platform and provide those that purchased the app an advantage over...
The Challenge Nisos was contracted to conduct cybersecurity diligence and an assessment of external network hygiene for a cybersecurity company’s acquisition target. Why Nisos Although the client, a cybersecurity company, leverages many of the same services as Nisos,...
The Challenge Malicious foreign actors were creating automated tools to abuse an e-commerce client’s platform. Using that automated process the threat actors were able to mass create and bulk manage accounts, run advertisements, and use credit cards. With those credit...
The Challenge A retail client requested our assistance to identify an individual, who was also a paying customer, who wrote a python script that scraped a backend server. The customer had also previously published a WiFi vulnerability present at the company’s offices...
The Challenge The CEO of a multinational manufacturer (Client) identified an urgent need to remove a key executive, along with several accomplices, from the operations of the company, based on concerns that these insiders were intent on sabotaging the company. Given...
The Challenge Nisos was tasked to acquire additional information on a threat actor making violent threats against a big tech company’s executive leadership. Why Nisos The client understood Nisos employs analytic experts with years of threat mitigation expertise...
The Challenge A global consumer service provider (the Client) was exploring different foreign cities to launch their new service, using security and safety as a critical metric. Why Nisos Nisos was tasked with identifying geographic and temporal crime patterns within...
The ChallengeA major pharmaceutical company (Client) made the decision to terminate an administrator and was concerned about the malicious exfiltration of personally identifiable information (PII) before his termination. Why Nisos The administrator was being...
The Challenge A global manufacturing company (the Client) experienced a corporate-wide outage due to being locked out of their router devices between corporate headquarters and their branch offices across the globe. After internal investigation and significant...
The Challenge A technology company’s (the Client) proprietary information was leaked to unauthorized third parties presumably from an identified disgruntled employee. The Client required assistance in determining with certainty whether such actions could be directly...
The Challenge Huddled around keyboards half a world away, a shadowy group of technically-savvy criminals devised techniques to hide from system administrators and run internet scams that defrauded a client out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue every...
The Challenge A multinational energy company (the Client) operating in a volatile nation had recently faced serious threats to its personnel and infrastructure as threat actors had begun resorting to violence. The company needed in-depth social media sentiment...
The Challenge A pharmaceutical company (the Client) was facing a sophisticated “short and distort” stock market manipulation campaign, costing the company billions in market cap. A variety of virtual anonymous personas were publishing false information on the...
The Challenge A healthcare technology company (the Client) suffered a wide-scale destructive compromise after an attacker targeted the Client’s backend point of sale technology and deleted all customer data. Why Nisos In addition to the primary forensics firm that was...
The Challenge A multinational manufacturer (The Client) needed assistance investigating a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against several publicly accessible websites and applications. In the course of the attribution investigation, we detected...
The Challenge A global consultancy (The Client) experienced network outages resulting from a large-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack against their Domain Name Service (DNS) servers. Why Nisos The Client engaged Nisos to leverage our access to external...
The Challenge A global retailer’s (the Client) peers were attacked with customized ransomware and the retailer’s subsidiaries were being targeted with customized phishing attempts. Why Nisos Out of concern that a subsidiary could be targeted by a similar ransomware...
The Challenge A publicly traded technology company (the Client) with thousands of global employees maintains a premier business unit application platform regularly abused by eCrime and cyber espionage actors. The Client requested Nisos’ expertise in threat...
The Challenge A global technology company (the Client) was in the process of divesting a previous acquisition. Upon learning of the divestiture plan , the key executives at the acquisition company threatened to destroy corporate infrastructure if the company was not...
The Challenge A global data and infrastructure provider (The Client) determined a very tightly controlled database was for sale on the dark web. The Client discovered this database was being sold on criminal forums and needed to attribute the seller and the source of...
The Challenge A private equity company (the client) focusing on mid-size businesses acquired an e-commerce platform (the portfolio company), and during the post-acquisition period learned of a breach affecting the company’s public-facing application server. An...
The Challenge A technology company (the Client) with thousands of employees across the globe was under attack by a nation-state level adversary. They requested Nisos’ assistance to provide critical intelligence to detect indicators and respond to the attack. Given the...
The Challenge A multinational manufacturer (The Client) came to Nisos for help responding to an unusual incident. An unauthorized user opened a trouble ticket in the Client’s internal IT ticketing system. In the ticket, the actor demonstrated access to sensitive...
Executing a successful merger or acquisition is a major undertaking. There are countless details to be managed by a multitude of stakeholders against fast-approaching deadlines. Strategic issues including financials, employment, tax, and technology must all be...
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