SpecterOps
specterops.io
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Information Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Identity Management
Threat Intelligence
Penetration Testing
Information Security
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$100M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$75M
Series B · Mar 2025 · 19 mo ago
Team
244
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +53% in a year
Hiring now
7
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Ballistic Ventures, Cisco Investments
The money's age
Due for its next round
19 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
36/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 12
Launched SpecterOps Launches BloodHound Scentry to Accelerate the Practice of Identity Attack Path Management · darkreading.com
2025
Team of 244 was 159 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Dec 4, 2025
Partnership SpecterOps and Tines Partner to Automate Attack Path Management with Native BloodHound Integration · YahooFinance
Mar 4, 2025
Raised a round Series B $75M · led by Insight Partners · BnkInfoSecurity
Sep 27, 2023
Launched SpecterOps introduces Purple Team Assessments Services · helpnetsecurity.com
Apr 18, 2023
Raised a round Series A $25M
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Web presence
top 0.02%
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Hacker News stories
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best: 2 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Mar 2025 | $75M | Insight Partners lead | BnkInfoSecurity |
| Series A | Apr 2023 | $25M | — | businesswire.com |
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Overview
SpecterOps is a cybersecurity company focused on helping organisations understand, defend, and respond to modern threats, particularly those that involve identity and access in enterprise environments. Its work is closely associated with adversary tradecraft and how attackers move through networks, which means the company sits at the intersection of security research and practical security engineering. For job seekers, that typically translates into a business that values technical depth, clear thinking under pressure, and a strong grasp of how real-world attacks unfold, not just how security should work in theory.
News
AI for Offensive Security: What Works, What Does Not, and How to Adopt It
Companies frequently ask SpecterOps some version of the same question: How are you using AI in offensive security, and how can we begin using it too? They want practical guidance. Which parts of an assessment are improving now? Where does the technology s
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Introducing Ghostwriter Skills
TL;DR: Ghostwriter Skills is a new collection of portable Agent Skills for common Ghostwriter workflows. The initial release includes skills for creating and reviewing report templates, checking whether a report is ready for final reporting steps, and dra
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CiliumHound: Graphing Kubernetes Network Policies
TLDR: CiliumHound is a BloodHound OpenGraph extension for auditing Cilium network policies. It ingests a folder of JSON or YAML policies and creates a searchable, Kubernetes namespace-scoped graph. Introduction On some recent assessments, I've had to revi
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Ghostwriter v7.3.0: A Fresh New Look
TL;DR: The upcoming Ghostwriter v7.3.0 release brings a major UI refresh to nearly every part of the application. The new design is easier on the eyes, more accessible, and better organized, with a new engagement bar, customizable sidebar with pinned work
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Unmasking SCCM Application Execution
TL;DR: Executing applications instead of scripts via SCCM's deploy application feature will generate different artifacts due to the fundamental differences in the execution flow. While existing detection tools can catch script-based execution, they often
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Beyond Tier Zero
Protecting Tier Zero is still critical, but today's identity risk extends far beyond the core directory. Attackers increasingly move through environments using legitimate credentials, trusted relationships, and existing access to reach the systems that ma
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Token Analysis and Tracking System (TATS)
TL;DR: Tracking OAuth tokens is hard, but Token Analysis and Tracking System (TATS) can help. TATS will collect, store, decode, analyze and provide visual tracking for OAuth token exchanges. It was built to account for known OAuth deviations in the Micros
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From Findings to Fixes: Getting Value from Red Team Results
TL;DR: The value of a red team engagement doesn't end when the report lands. This post covers how to read findings for root cause, prioritize remediation, and build the improvement habit that makes each engagement more valuable than the last. The engageme
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Demystifying Agent Tradecraft: Introducing SpecterOps Skills
A public repository for turning practitioner knowledge into reusable, reviewable workflows for AI-assisted security work. SpecterOps Skills is our public repository of reusable skills, plugins, and agent definitions for AI-assisted workflows. It is design
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Why SpecterOps Signed OpenAI's Call for Collective Cyber Defense
Our response to OpenAI's call for stronger, more widely shared cyber defense We are signing OpenAI's call for collective action on cyber defense because we agree with the three principles at its center: the weaknesses already exist, advanced AI needs to r
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at SpecterOps over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
36
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
70/100
Languages
Python54%
PowerShell46%
Bash23%
C#23%
Frameworks & libraries
Django8%
Databases
PostgreSQL8%
Cloud & platforms
Active Directory46%
Linux31%
Windows31%
.NET23%
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36 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$165k
Typical range
$125k – $325k
Open positions
7
6
Jobs
Senior
66.7%
Staff
33.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 4 | $248k | $165k – $325k |
| Staff | 2 | $138k | $125k – $150k |
Highest paying role
Account Executive, Ohio Valley
$325k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at SpecterOps
By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
93/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
7
4 opened / 7 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
4 days
faster than 85% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Security
30% ▼
Backend
20% ▲
Sales
20% ▲
DevOps
10% ▲
Support
10% ▲
Marketing
10% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added Figma to stack
Oct 2026
Added Balsamiq to stack
Oct 2026
Added SIEM to stack
Sep 2026
Added AWS to stack
Sep 2026
Added BloodHound to stack
Sep 2026
Added Azure to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Active Directory to stack
Sep 2026
Added WordPress to stack
Sep 2026
Added Salesforce to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Washington
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Washington
United States
HQ
Hybrid-Washington, DC
1 open roles 100% engineering 200-500 est. staff $160k Avg Salary
hires for Security
Seattle
United States
Regional office
Seattle - Pioneer Square
Alexandria
United States
Regional office
VA - Alexandria
Jobs
$135k – $165k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • United States
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$145k – $170k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
PowerShell
C#
C++
Bash
.NET
AI/ML
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Linux
Windows
Cybersecurity
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$100k – $125k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
PowerShell
C#
C++
Bash
.NET
AI/ML
Red Teaming
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Linux
Windows
Cybersecurity
Active Directory
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$120k – $150k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
PowerShell
C#
C++
Bash
.NET
AI/ML
Red Teaming
DevOps
Linux
Windows
Cybersecurity
Active Directory
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$110k – $160k per year • Equity • Hybrid • TS/SCI • Washington
Python
PowerShell
Azure
AWS
Cybersecurity
SIEM
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