HUMINT Influence: Competitive Board Voting

This client wanted to secure majority support from the Board of Directors to endorse the successor candidate he brought forth, as well as endorse a specific, high-risk market expansion strategy during the Board Resolution in 1 month’s time. The challenge was that there was a strong, subversive faction that was aiming to put forth a different candidate and reject the expansion strategy. After exhausting all options, he has decided to engage Mamushi Strategy to achieve the impossible.

Our Ninjas were deployed in a high-precision HUMINT operation. Over 1 month, the Ninjas mapped out the power distribution of the board, identified 2 key stakeholders from the opposing faction that could potentially be turned over, and achieved high-precision influence over these stakeholders. During the Resolution on the following week, the stakeholders proceeded to vote in favour of our client’s endorsements, thereby helping our client achieve his objectives within the tight timeline. This not only achieved what seemed impossible, but exceeded expectations.

HUMINT Influence: Competitive Reputation Management

Our client, the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of a management consulting firm, wanted to identify the exact details of, and neutralise, malicious disinformation that was spreading within the Executive Committee of his firm. This disinformation was actively discrediting the current CEO, and had the potential to escalate into a coup d'état and major PR crisis. After exhausting all options to no avail within the company, he has decided to engage Mamushi Strategy to achieve the impossible.

Our Ninjas were deployed in a high-precision HUMINT operation. Over 1 month, the Ninjas identified key stakeholders as nexuses of influence within the firm and achieved high-precision influence over them. The Ninjas traced the disinformation and identified one of the Committee members as the source, Then, by aligning the narrative among the stakeholders, the culprit was exposed and reprimanded in a disciplinary proceeding involving the stakeholders. A potential coup d'état and PR crisis was thus averted. This not only achieved what seemed impossible, but exceeded expectations.

HUMINT Red Team: Competitive Intelligence

Our client, the CEO of an investment firm, hired us to simulate a high-precision industrial espionage campaign by competitor MNCs against his company’s security culture, which seemed impossible, given that the members of the executive team were former intelligence officers. The goal was to obtain their market entry and acquisition plans, and to deliver simulated malware payloads to key endpoints in the company’s enterprise network. The client trusted our professionalism, and no dummy artefacts were requested to be used.

Our Ninjas were deployed in a high-precision HUMINT operation. Over 2 weeks, they infiltrated the organisation as business development associates, bypassing background checks and due diligence by the executive team, which directly oversees the hiring process. Over the next 4.5 months, the Ninjas identified key stakeholders within the executive team and achieved high-precision influence over them. Despite a strong security culture, the Ninjas elicited comprehensive details of the market entry and acquisition plans through private coffee sessions and dinners with the stakeholders. In the following month, the Ninjas exploited the timing of a routine server reboot to demand emergency access to the high-security on-premise server, instead of waiting for the server team. Because of the timed urgency and prior influence, the Ninjas were given the physical access in the absence of the executive and server teams — this simulated a server breach with potential for malware compromise.

HUMINT Red Team: Intellectual Property Theft

Our client, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a government-linked information technology company, hired us to simulate a high-precision industrial espionage campaign by competitor MNCs against his company’s security apparatus, which seemed impossible, given that its security apparatus includes an advanced Security Operations Centre (SOC) and intelligence team (for due diligence and background checks). The goal was to obtain details of their security playbook and to deliver simulated malware payloads to key endpoints in the company’s enterprise network. The client trusted our professionalism, and no dummy artefacts were requested to be used.

Our Ninjas were deployed in a high-precision HUMINT operation. Over 1 month, they infiltrated the company as entry-level cybersecurity staff, bypassing background checks and due diligence by the intelligence team. They identified key stakeholders within the management team, achieved high-precision influence over them, and successfully pivoted to the SOC analyst team, under the same management team. Over the next 6 months, they continued to cultivate trust (while leveraging influence to outsource highly technical work to other colleagues), which put them into trusted positions to access the security playbook, as well as key accounts and devices. They eventually exfiltrated the playbook via email, and planted a PowerShell script to simulate a malware payload. The PowerShell script, being undetected for days, simulated compromise.