COUNTERTARGETING
RUN THE ADVERSARY'S PROCESS FIRST.
CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE.
FOR HIGH-VALUE EXECUTIVES
AND THEIR FAMILIES
The threats are rarely random.
Specific adversaries. Specific attacks. Specific sequence.
CURRENT
ADVERSARIES
Since 2024, documented attacks against high-value executives have involved 12 distinct adversary types.
01
Aggrieved lone actor
02
Issue-motivated activists
03
Copycat attackers
04
Organized residential burglary crews
05
Crypto attack crews
06
Kidnap-for-Ransom groups
07
Executive-Impersonators
08
Account-takeover (ATO) crews
09
Data Extortionists
10
Doxxing / Swatting Actors
11
Malicious Insiders
12
State-sponsored or Corporate Intelligence
THE CURRENT
ATTACK SURFACE
Since 2024, 42 distinct attack vectors have been documented against executives and their families.
Attacks extend far beyond the workplace—into residences, devices, financial accounts, travel, and those closest to the executive.
Among the most active and consequential vectors are:
PERSONAL
Doxxing | Swatting | Stalking
LEGAL
Lawfare | Smear Campaigns
PHYSICAL
Ambush | Home Invasion | Kidnap-for-Ransom
FINANCIAL
Executive Impersonation | AI Deepfake Fraud
DIGITAL
Account Takeover | Spyware
INSIDER
Family Targeting | Staff Fraud
THE
ATTACK SEQUENCE
Before the attack, there's an entire process.
Countertargeting intervenes before intent becomes action.
BY THE TIME AN ATTACK BEGINS, THE OPPORTUNITY FOR PREVENTION HAS NARROWED DRAMATICALLY.
DEFEAT THE ADVERSARY'S
ATTACK PLANNING.
Countertargeting is the controlled, authorized replication of an adversary’s attack planning to find and prove viable pathways to a principal, deny what makes them possible, and verify they no longer work.
Countertargeting works across every security domain—because adversaries do.
01- THE FIRST 30 DAYS
FIND IT.
A Recce Group Professional Countertargeter targets the principal and their ecosystem from the adversary’s perspective—using advanced OSINT, reconnaissance, pattern-of-life analysis, and other targeting methods to develop viable pathways to find, predict, and reach the principal.
We work quietly and discreetly, without disrupting the principal or their security program. The process follows the evidence wherever it leads—not the boundaries of the security program.
YOU RECEIVE -
THE COMPLETE TARGET PROFILE
A comprehensive view of the principal from an adversary’s perspective—identifying:
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which adversaries are relevant to the principal,
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the attack vectors available to them,
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the information, access, and conditions they could exploit, and
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the viable pathways those elements create to the principal.
02- DAYS 31-90
PROVE IT.
Finding a viable pathway is not the same as proving it works.
Selected pathways become authorized adversary missions. Specialized operators proceed only as far as necessary and permitted to establish the result.
Depending on the adversary and attack vector, testing may involve surveillance, social engineering, digital exploitation, physical access, financial or legal exploitation, travel-related targeting, insider pathways, or other adversary methods.
YOU RECEIVE -
THE ADVERSARY MISSION REPORT
A comprehensive record of each authorized adversary mission—documenting what was attempted, how the pathway was tested, what happened, where existing security stopped the attempt, and which pathways were demonstrated to remain viable.
You’ll know which adversaries and attack vectors can actually produce a viable pathway to your principal.
03 - AFTER 90 DAYS
DENY IT.
The pathway determines hardening.
Recce Group works with your existing team to address what made each demonstrated pathway viable. Action may fall to Legal, Finance, HR, Communications, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Executive Protection, the Executive Office, or others across the principal’s ecosystem.
You’ll know what must change, why it matters, who can change it, and have the evidence to justify the action.
Where additional capability is required, Recce can recommend trusted specialists to work with your team. Providers are engaged directly by the client, while Recce remains independent of the remediation and returns to verify the result.
YOU RECEIVE -
THE PATHWAY DENIAL PLAN
A prioritized plan for denying demonstrated pathways—identifying the dependencies each pathway relies on, which must be removed, reduced, or degraded to deny it, who should own the hardening effort, and the actions required.
04 - WHEN READY
VERIFY IT.
Implementation doesn't prove a pathway is closed. Retesting does.
When hardening is complete, Recce returns as the adversary and reruns the original missions under controlled authorization.
YOU RECEIVE -
A PATHWAY CLOSURE REPORT
A record of adversarial retesting that verifies whether the original result can still be reproduced and identifies which pathways are closed, materially reduced, or remain viable.
A pathway is closed when the original adversary result can no longer be reproduced.
WHAT COUNTER-TARGETING
CHANGES
Security programs operate across defined responsibilities and domains. Adversaries don't. Countertargeting reveals how exposures across those domains can be assembled into a pathway to the principal.
KNOW WHAT'S POSSIBLE
Know which pathways actually work—and have the evidence to prove it.
KNOW WHERE TO ACT
Direct resources toward what makes the viable pathways possible.
REDUCE ADVERSARY OPTIONS
Leave fewer viable pathways to your principal.
The result:
Fewer viable pathways.
Fewer opportunities to act.
A principal who is harder to target.
THE TARGETING ENVIRONMENT DOESN'T STAND STILL
The principal changes. Adversaries change. Attack vectors change. New pathways can emerge.
Countertargeting continues as the principal and threat environment evolve—finding new pathways, proving what works, denying what makes them possible, and verifying they no longer work.
BUILT FOR
HIGH-VALUE PRINCIPALS.
Countertargeting is designed for high-value principals and families—and for those responsible for protecting them.
CORPORATIONS
Executives and other high-value principals protected by established security programs.
FAMILY OFFICES
Principals and families whose lives extend across residences, travel, businesses, staff, assets, and personal activities.
PRIVATE CLIENTS
Individuals and families whose wealth, visibility, position, or circumstances make them attractive targets to capable adversaries.
The common requirement: a principal important enough that a capable adversary may be willing to work the problem.
