A major retailer thought they were talking to their own Head of IT. They weren't. It was CovertSwarm, running a social engineering attack that took full control of their Google Workspace in under a week, using nothing but public information and a convincing voice on the phone.
Three routine image upload forms on a client login portal were all it took. A cloud security assessment turned a scoped proof of concept into full control of an insurance provider's AWS environment, every connected domain, and the databases behind them, in three days.
A free trial signup was all it took to seize control of a major cloud platform's demo environment. A mistrusted Docker image and an exposed Kubernetes service account token gave us the same access potential customers get when they sign up, plus a route into the provider's Google Workspace.
A fintech company passed every audit and still missed the gaps attackers could see. Constant attack simulation and open-source reconnaissance found what point-in-time penetration testing never could: a public data trail leading straight to private systems.
A long-established financial institution trusted its CBEST testing cycle to prove its defences held. The Swarm found what the audit missed: digital footholds, chained privilege escalation, and a physical intrusion into the client's own office. Ten months later, the client doubled its coverage and stopped measuring security by a certificate.
A fake onboarding email gave CovertSwarm valid credentials inside a major B2C retailer's network. The client caught the phishing attempt fast, but a VPN session from the attack stayed open long after the incident was closed. That's the gap a real attacker would have found first.
