Powerful Results Through Our Use Cases
In a time when cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated, our customized approaches have helped organizations identify vulnerabilities and strengthen their security defenses. Each case study illustrates real-world scenarios in which our expert team has pinpointed weaknesses, offered actionable insights, and reinforced systems against potential breaches. Explore our compelling success stories to see how Hack Ninja is transforming cybersecurity, enabling our clients to confidently and resiliently navigate their digital environments.
Here are some noteworthy use cases applicable to various industries.
- By enrolling in recurring penetration testing for a period of three years, the client successfully improved their insurance rates, allowing them to focus more on their business while reducing remediation efforts over time.
- Leveraging the expertise of the Hack Ninja in identifying threat actors, the client discovered a vulnerability in their M365 console due to a default setting.
- Gaining an understanding of various breach paths enabled the client to reduce risks and enhance the segmentation of their environment and access controls. The Hack Ninja conducted this penetration test within six months of a previous assessment, during which the former provider had failed to identify any breach paths.
- By identifying a risk that had been introduced in 2016 on the client's customer portal, the client was able to address this vulnerability swiftly. A web application security test performed a year prior had not revealed this risk, highlighting a gap in the previous penetration testing providers' assessments.
- Additionally, a SQL vulnerability on the front end of the client’s website had remained exposed for over ten years. Despite conducting regular penetration tests, this vulnerability had gone unnoticed by previous penetration testing companies.
MSPs/MSSPs
Healthcare Services
Manufacturing
- Discovered credentials on the dark web.
- Gained access to servers.
- Accessed the client portal.
- Found stale servers that were supposed to be decommissioned.
- Identified an excessive number of open ports.
- Exploited printers and retrieved print job data, including invoices, HR documents, and banking information
- Discovered an application associated with document number M365 and revealed an ongoing breach that lasted over 80 days, which went undetected due to a phishing email that was not captured.
Manufacturing
Healthcare Services
Manufacturing
- Cracked several user credentials.
- Discovered all users by hacking into the Active Directory server.
- Identified over 50 easily available exploits and breached the environment.
- Retrieved over 800,000 records by hacking the NAS.
- Found an excessive number of open ports.
Healthcare Services
Healthcare Services
Software Development
- Successfully guessed username combinations.
- Discovered over 1,500 exploits and breached the environment.
- Over 1 million records were found in various file shares.
- Cracked more than 30% of user accounts.
- Exploited over 60 printers and located sensitive data in archives.
- Gained access to servers.
Software Development
Software Development
Software Development
- Identified shortcomings in web application development regarding basic cybersecurity practices.
- Exploited path traversal vulnerabilities and a faulty open-source library.
- Compromised a web application due to improper parameter handling and failure to implement proper FRAMESET coding.
Financial Services
Software Development
Financial Services
- Successfully accessed the client portal.
- Guessed the username combination correctly.
- Cracked multiple credentials.
Education
Software Development
Financial Services
- Discovered several vulnerabilities.
- Noted that new printers are not equipped with updated firmware.
General Business
General Business
General Business
- Lack of controls for least privileged access.
- A large number of global admin accounts.
- Vulnerability to man-in-the-middle attacks due to an expired website certificate.
- Identification of various fake domains.
- Discovery of exposed internal financial forms.
- Exploitation of user accounts by gathering information from their social media posts.
- Exposure of weaknesses in firewalls.
- Successfully exploited FTP servers to obtain sensitive documentation.
