Red Specter Security Research

Making AI Security Incidents Provable.
British AI security research firm.
Offensive. Defensive. Forensic.

Red Specter Security Research Ltd designs and operates purpose-built frameworks for the complete attack surface of agentic AI systems. Spanning offensive research, runtime defence, forensic incident reconstruction, and autonomous red-blue co-evolution.

What We Build

NIGHTFALL

Offensive AI security framework. 301 purpose-built tools across 208 attack layers and 36 kill chain phases. The complete agentic AI attack surface.

AI SHIELD

Defensive runtime platform. 227 modules across 17 industry verticals. Purpose-built runtime protection paired to every NIGHTFALL attack surface.

RED SCORE

AI security posture scoring. Quantified, evidence-based risk assessment across the full agentic attack surface.

BLACK BOX

Forensic AI incident reconstruction. Cryptographically-linked capture of every input, output, tool invocation, and reasoning checkpoint — before, during, and after an incident.

SPECTER BATTLE LAB

Autonomous attack-defence co-evolution platform. NIGHTFALL attacks. AI Shield defends. Security Half-Life empirically measured at T½ = 13 cycles.

The SPECTER Constellation

SPECTER AGENT RED

Offensive intelligence. Sequences attacks across 301 NIGHTFALL tools and 22 attack surfaces. Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65 + RFC 3161 evidence chain. SAR-{hex12} session IDs.

SPECTER AGENT BLUE

Defensive coverage mapping. Maps 227 AI Shield modules against 22 attack surfaces. Cross-references RED findings. Flags untested and undefended surfaces. SAB-{hex12} session IDs.

SPECTER AGENT WHITE

Compliance and regulatory mapping. Takes RED and BLUE outputs. Maps findings to 11 regulatory frameworks and 37 obligations. SAW-{hex12} session IDs.

Attack. Defend. Comply.

Coming soon: SPECTER AGENT BLACK (threat intelligence), SPECTER AGENT GREY (forensics), SPECTER AGENT GOLD (vendor assessment), SPECTER AGENT PURPLE (continuous monitoring), SPECTER AGENT ORANGE (training and simulation).

Research

102 Published Papers — Peer-reviewed research across offensive AI, defensive runtime protection, and AI forensics.
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RS-2026-081: The SPECTER Constellation. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22962665

RS-2026-068: The NHI Blind Spot. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22714844

RS-2026-067: The DEADMAN Problem. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22709674

RS-2026-066: SPECTER TORPEDO. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22709618

SPECTER DARK

AI-powered law enforcement intelligence tool. Available to verified law enforcement agencies.