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The DAR Team

Regain leverage in Cyber Extortion

The DAR Team goes where others won't -- to understand and navigate the harsh reality of the cyber extortion economy.

Powered by AFTRDRK's investigative and intelligence capabilities, The DAR Team helps global organizations defend, prepare, and respond outside the boundaries of conventional cyber defenses.

We are who you want when a hacker is looming.

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Cyber Extortion

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BakerHostetler
MoxFive
McDonald Hopkins
Tokio Marine America
Groupsense
Coalition
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Arch Insurance
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Your Crisis Readiness Team

We run towards the Threat Actors, where others run away

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Experience

With The DAR Team on your side during a crisis, you’ll have the world’s leading ransomware negotiation and payment experts on your side at a moment’s notice. 

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Unrestrained Capabilities

From onboarding to integration to transfer of knowledge, our Preparedness and Response solutions bolt onto your existing incident response plan for seamless integration.

Convenience

Convenience

Custom SLAs to fit your response requirements. Leverage our workflow software to ensure each step is managed with precision and professionalism.

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Clear Communication

High-touch and clear communication, we are extraordinarily careful about the words we use and approach to management.

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Customer Service

We understand all too well how stressful a ransomware attack is. We pride ourselves on our bedside manner to help guide you through this time, along with high-touch and clear communication that management needs.

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Hard-Won Experience

With over a thousand customers and thousands more “unofficial” engagements, there isn’t a ransomware case we haven’t seen before.

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Sanctions Expertise

Paying a ransom is a tricky task.  Our sanction screening, powered by AFTRDRK’s industry-leading attribution process, dark web intelligence, and operatives behind enemy lines, gives confidence in the decision to move forward with a payment.

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Simplicity

From customized workflows and case management to sanctions expertise, we ensure every aspect of your case is fully handled each step of the way. Lean on our fluency and deep expertise with issues like banking compliance, Law Enforcement engagement, and Department of Justice requests.

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Human Intelligence

We have operatives behind enemy lines using human intelligence to ensure we learn as much as possible about emerging threats and threat actors.  Intelligence captured by humans, augmented by AI, and curated for you.

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Empirical Data

Lots of data from real cases to back up everything that we’re recommending.

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Our customers continue to extend their gratitude and praise

"DAR thinks 3 to 4 steps ahead in anything they work on. It’s amazing to feel like they are always calm, collected and in control."

"Thank you all for your efforts. This started on the 8th and after fighting it and trying to get the bitcoin chaos handled for several days, we were becoming hopeless. I thank God that I was able to find Billy and then he got y'all involved, truly was an answered prayer. We pray that you all are blessed for this awesome good deed you have done. It's reassuring to know there are still people who care and will go above and beyond to help others.  Thank you and God bless you."

"Thank you for your partnership. In particular one of your reports resulted in the arrest and charging of an international criminal tied directly to over 15 ransomware attacks!"

"Thank you all for your efforts.  After fighting for several days, we were becoming hopeless. I thank God that I was able to find y'all, truly was an answered prayer. It's reassuring to know there are still people who care and will go above and beyond to help others."

"A HUGE thank you for your assistance in making this process so smooth on us and in front of the Client.  It shows really well across the board!"

"The last week has been like no other for us, so having some ‘good guys’ to work with, has helped balance our dealings with the ‘bad guys’."

"Thank you for your assistance during a stressful time.  You saved us a couple of important days toward getting back to normal."

"We have solved the security problem within 5 days. Without your support never, never we were able to finish this successfully for our customers."

"Thanks again.  You guys always do a great job for us and our clients."

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