A curated selection of complex digital challenges our team has investigated and resolved. All identifying details have been anonymised to protect client confidentiality.
A multinational financial institution engaged Pynek after detecting anomalous network traffic suggesting an active intrusion. Within 4 hours of initial contact, our incident response team was deployed. We identified a sophisticated supply chain compromise that had provided the threat actor with persistent access to 14 critical systems over 11 weeks without detection. The full forensic investigation reconstructed the complete attack chain from initial access through to data staging, attributed the intrusion to a known financially motivated threat group, and delivered a comprehensive remediation roadmap. The client avoided regulatory disclosure through rapid containment.
A national law enforcement agency required forensic examination of 12 encrypted smartphones seized during a multi-suspect criminal operation. Several devices used advanced encryption and had active remote wipe capabilities. Pynek applied specialised bypass techniques to achieve physical extraction, recovering deleted communications, call logs, location history, and encrypted messaging application data. All evidence was produced with complete chain-of-custody documentation for use in court proceedings.
A government agency's operational systems were paralysed by a ransomware attack during a critical service period. The attackers demanded a significant ransom with a 72-hour deadline. Pynek's emergency team was on-site within 6 hours. Using backup metadata, shadow copies, and proprietary decryption techniques, we recovered 98% of encrypted data without paying the ransom, restored core systems to operation within the deadline, and implemented post-recovery hardening measures to prevent recurrence.
A national energy utility commissioned Pynek to conduct a comprehensive security assessment of its SCADA and OT environment following an industry-wide advisory. The engagement involved physical and logical assessment of substation systems, historian servers, and the IT/OT network boundary. We identified 9 critical vulnerabilities including an unauthenticated remote code execution path to operational controllers — findings that were immediately escalated to the national CERT.
A broadcast media company suffered a catastrophic RAID 6 array failure resulting in the loss of 48TB of unbroadcast footage, post-production assets, and archival content valued in excess of $2M. Pynek's on-site recovery team diagnosed a combined firmware corruption and mechanical failure scenario, performed head transplants and firmware repair, and achieved full reconstruction of the array with 100% data recovery within 10 days.
A technology firm suspected a departing senior engineer of exfiltrating confidential source code and client data to a competitor. Pynek conducted a covert forensic investigation covering the subject's devices, cloud storage, USB activity, email exfiltration, and corporate DLP bypass techniques. We produced a legally admissible investigation report that formed the basis of successful civil litigation and an insurance recovery claim.
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