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RemoteThreat emerged from stealth on September 29, 2026, with $7M in pre-seed funding from Osage University Partners and DataTribe. It builds an offensive operations platform.
Chris Thompson (CEO) and Shawn Jones (CTO), both IBM X-Force Red Team leaders, founded the company. The Nakasone Group, recently launched by retired US Army General Paul M. Nakasone, will serve as a strategic advisor.
The O/C/O Platform is built for offensive cyber operations. Its users are enterprise and critical infrastructure red teams, US government mission teams, and vetted defense partners. It combines eight connected systems: mission planning and oversight, command and control (C2), implants, an initial access framework, composable capabilities, an obfuscation pipeline, targeting, tasking and analysis engines, and AI assistants.
The implants work across operating systems and architectures and support in-memory execution. The C2 system has configurable traffic profiles and can run alongside a team's existing C2. Operators can combine payloads, implants, and post-exploitation tools for each engagement, and apply obfuscation and evasion techniques to fit the environment.
Operations can run manually, with AI assistance, or by delegating specific tasks to autonomous workflows. Rules of engagement, policies, approvals, and no-strike controls limit consequential actions. The platform keeps operator decisions, delegated tasks, and evidence traceable.
Thompson's pitch is that AI-driven attacks are fast but noisy, while human-driven operations are slow and hard to scale. He says RemoteThreat wants to close that gap by combining tunable capabilities, operational infrastructure, and governed AI in one platform.
