A Decade of Offensive Security.
Ten years. One job: proving how far an attacker gets.
No side business, no distraction - since 2016 exclusively adversary simulation for regulated institutions and critical-infrastructure operators across DACH, the Nordics, and MENA.
- 2016
Exploit Labs founded in Germany - threat-intelligence-driven offensive security from day one.
- 2017
First team member receives dedicated red team training in the USA.
- 2019
Enterprise Red Teaming practice established. Cobalt Strike shop - further differentiation between penetration testing and red teaming.
- 2021
Joined the ENISA Workgroup on Threat Landscapes.
- 2022
Appointed Official OffSec Learning & Channel Partner. Forming an alliance with SecureIT and deepening our activities in Iceland. Opening of Exploit Labs LLC in Dubai, with further activities in Austria and Switzerland.
- 2023
ISO 27001 on the basis of IT-Grundschutz (BSI), certificate BSI-IGZ-0539-2023. Member of the FIRST Special Interest Group for Red Teaming. A team member qualifies as a SANS trainer for the first time - a milestone in how we develop our people.
- 2024
First official TIBER and DORA TLPT engagements. Training partnership with Manufaktur IT Training. Further deepening physical penetration testing skills.
- 2025 / 2026
OffSec Channel & Learning Partner (DACH, MENA, GCC). Full-scope cyber-physical red team engagements across the EU. Successfully won further government tenders around penetration testing and source code review. Furthering our capabilities around Automated / AI-driven penetration testing and pentest-as-a-service.
ISO 27001 on the basis of IT-Grundschutz (BSI), certificate BSI-IGZ-0539-2023 Member of the FIRST Special Interest Group for Red Teaming
Focus over portfolio sprawl. Reach over regional comfort.
No incident response. No IT admin work. No "we do that too". We concentrate on one job - adversary simulation - and get better at it, instead of drifting into generic "consultants" who "also" pentest on the side.
From Reykjavík to Frankfurt to Dubai: our clients operate internationally. Banks, insurers, government bodies, manufacturing, logistics, defense, healthcare, energy - there is barely a vertical or horizontal we haven't been dropped into. It doesn't get boring.
Snapshots from our locations and trainings. All faces are deliberately anonymized - what matters is the working mode, not the individual.
Global Footprint. Local Sovereignty. Zero Operational Silos.
Offensive security cannot be executed from a generic remote desk when your assets span critical infrastructure in the North Atlantic, industrial IoT in the DACH region, and frontier AI ecosystems in the Middle East.
Exploit Labs (XPLT) operates across three distinct, highly specialized operational hubs designed to give enterprise clients both deep regional compliance and international threat intelligence:
Built around the stringent compliance mandates of Central Europe. We serve German Hidden Champions and international industrial groups navigating DORA, NIS2, KRITIS, and TIBER-EU requirements. This is where our core methodology for deep-code audits, PTaaS, and threat-led red teaming is refined.
Specialized in sovereign resilience, subsea connectivity, and extreme physical-logical security engagements. Serving Iceland’s vital energy and financial sectors, our team executes physical breach simulations and facility security validation under conditions where geographic isolation demands absolute uptime.
Headquartered locally to support the GCC’s rapid adoption of next-generation infrastructure. We provide local headcount and on-demand technical depth for Web3/blockchain security, AI-native system penetration testing, and hyper-growth enterprise ecosystems.
By deploying dedicated local talent backed by our international offensive research unit, XPLT delivers the exact requirement enterprise procurement demands: Global adversary emulation with sovereign, on-ground accountability.
How we work. What we measure. What we improve.
Exploit Labs is built on four operating principles that govern every engagement, every report, and every hiring decision. They are not decoration - they define how we work.
We do not optimize for speed or volume. Every finding is reproducible, every report is reviewed, every engagement is defensible. When forced to choose between fast and right, we choose right.
Everyone here both pentests and trains. Only what you can teach, you truly understand. Those who want to can stand in front of customers as OffSec-certified instructors and teach their favorite courses. That keeps our knowledge fresh and our clients current.
We operate in a cloud-first environment with pentest report engines and AI-assisted tools - but only where they create real value. We do not follow the hype blindly. A human remains accountable for every critical outcome.
Everyone on the team is invited to push the technical process forward: What can we do better? How will we pentest differently in two years compared to today? We engage in ENISA, FIRST, OWASP and other formats to deliberately look beyond the horizon.
These four principles are the backbone of our culture. They decide who we hire, which tools we adopt, and how we close an engagement. If this fits you, apply or reach out.
Everyone who has helped build Exploit Labs.
Honorable mentions. To everyone who has walked this road with us over the past ten years - including those whose portrait we couldn't track down or who never sat for one: thank you. You are just as much a part of this story. And to all of our partners and clients who trusted us and walked this way with us - thank you for a decade of Exploit Labs.
160 m² for events, workshops and team gatherings.
Our Frankfurt penthouse is the base for client workshops, debriefings and everything that keeps a team together. Not a coworking desk - a place with character.
Questions about the team.
What makes us as a team and how we work.
Remote first. We do not just work from home offices; we provide a real remote workspace. Travel is usually 10-25%. We also have a 160 sqm pentest penthouse for events, team gatherings and to chill.
Cloud-first environment, pentest report engines and AI-enabled tools where they create value and make pentest work easier, without following the hype.
Pentest/red team plus training. Only what you can teach, you truly understand. Those who want to can become an OffSec-certified instructor for their favorite courses.
We travel between our hotspots Frankfurt, Dubai and Reykjavík. It is not going to get boring.
All-around pentesters. No single swim lane operators like "I only do web apps". We are looking for curious minds.
We are active in ENISA, FIRST, OWASP and other formats, and deliberately look beyond the horizon.
Everyone is invited to push the technical process forward: What can we do better? How will we pentest differently in two years compared to today?
Our single most valued KPI is quality.
Apply right here - your application lands confidentially with frontoffice@xplt.com.