Powered by Sonar, our AI-powered credential intelligence engine. We continuously surface your organisation's compromised credentials across the surface, deep, and dark web, validate which ones still authenticate, and deliver the cleartext evidence and context you need to act before attackers do.
Continuous monitoring of compromised credential exposure across the surface, deep, and dark web, with the validation and context needed to act on what we find.
Credential theft is the most common path attackers take into modern organisations. Every day, employee passwords surface in public breach datasets, infostealer log markets, dark web forums, Telegram channels, paste sites, and combo lists. Most of these exposures are never detected by the organisations they affect until an attacker has already used them.
Compromised Credential Monitoring is built on Sonar (formerly Credenshow), our proprietary AI-powered credential intelligence engine. Sonar continuously collects and processes credential exposure data from across the surface, deep, and dark web, with a private dataset prioritised for Asia and Hong Kong sources that global providers under-index.
Each engagement is led by senior consultants who interpret what Sonar surfaces. We validate which credentials still authenticate against your environment, deliver the cleartext evidence and context required for response, and provide real-time alerts as new exposures appear. The result is intelligence your team can act on, not raw lookup output.
Sonar is the proprietary engine that powers our Compromised Credential Monitoring service. Built and operated in-house, it continuously collects and processes credential exposure data across global and Asia-focused sources, with active validation and senior consultant interpretation layered on top.
Sonar continuously ingests credential exposure data across the surface, deep, and dark web, automatically parsing, classifying, and deduplicating findings. The engine runs around the clock, not on scheduled refresh cycles.
Sonar maintains its own collection infrastructure prioritised for Hong Kong and broader Asia sources that global credential intelligence providers under-index. The result is visibility into regional exposure that competitors built on US and EU data feeds cannot match.
Every flagged credential is tested to determine whether it still authenticates against your environment. Testing is performed with your authorization, non-disruptively. You receive verified intelligence on which exposures represent live risk, not just historical leaks.
Most providers return exposure status only or partial hints. Sonar delivers the full cleartext credentials we recover, so your team can verify the exposure, identify password reuse patterns, and protect against the credential reuse attacks that drive most modern account takeovers.
As new exposures surface, alerts are delivered through your agreed channel with the full context required to triage and respond. No waiting for monthly reports.
Every finding is reviewed by a senior consultant before delivery. We filter noise, prioritise by exploitability and business context, and pair findings with recommended response actions. You receive operationally useful intelligence, not raw feed output.
Five differences that determine whether your monitoring catches the exposures that actually matter.
Continuous collection across every source category that matters to modern credential exposure, with private datasets focused on Asia and Hong Kong sources global providers under-index.
Credential dumps from publicly disclosed corporate breaches, ingested as they surface across breach-tracking communities, leak repositories, and underground markets.
Logs from established infostealer malware families, traded across dark web markets and successor platforms. The single largest source of fresh corporate credentials today.
Active and historical monitoring of dark web forums and credential marketplaces where leaked datasets, fresh dumps, and compromised access are traded.
Public and private Telegram channels and chats that have become a dominant distribution layer for infostealer logs and freshly compromised credential dumps.
Pastebin, Ghostbin, GitHub commits, and other public sites where credentials are deliberately leaked or accidentally exposed by developers.
Aggregated credential dumps assembled from multiple sources and traded standalone, often the basis for credential stuffing campaigns.
Misconfigured cloud storage, exposed databases, leaked documents, and other surface-web exposures discovered through continuous monitoring of public infrastructure.
Beyond what global providers cover, Sonar maintains proprietary collection infrastructure prioritised for Hong Kong and broader Asia sources. The result is visibility into regional exposure that competitors built on US and EU data feeds cannot match.
Beyond Sonar's intelligence engine, here's what backs every finding we surface and every recommendation we make.
Our consultants don't just operate Sonar. They interpret what it surfaces. The same elite practitioners who design and run our offensive cybersecurity engagements analyse exposure findings, validate real risk against your environment, and translate raw credential intelligence into prioritised actions. The people reviewing your exposure data understand exactly how attackers weaponise leaked credentials, because they do it themselves on engagement.
No junior bait-and-switch and no offshore hand-offs. The senior consultants who scope your engagement are the ones interpreting your findings, walking you through quarterly reviews, and supporting your team through response actions. You get the same expert from onboarding through closure.
Compromised credential monitoring requires absolute trust. You are granting us continuous visibility into your most sensitive identity data. We are proudly supported by the HKSTP Incubation Programme and the CityU HK Tech 300 Seed Fund, making us a vetted Hong Kong cybersecurity partner with institutional accountability.
We don't deliver raw feed output or noisy alert streams. Every finding is validated, prioritised, and paired with response context, translated for both your security operations team and your board.
Clients engage us when credential exposure has to be detected before it is weaponised, when findings have to be validated, and when the outcome has to hold up to auditors, regulators, customers, and the board.
Organisations whose threat model centres on account takeover, business email compromise, and credential reuse attacks, the dominant initial-access vectors in modern intrusions.
Organisations subject to HKMA C-RAF 2.0, HKIA GL20, SFC, ISO/IEC 27001, or NIST SP 800-63B compromised-credential checking expectations.
Organisations protecting executives, finance leaders, IT administrators, and other high-value identities whose compromise carries disproportionate business impact.
Organisations re-evaluating credential exposure following a reported intrusion, password reset cycle, or significant access policy change.
Acquirers and investors evaluating the credential exposure of target organisations prior to transaction close, particularly where integration of identity systems or executive accounts is planned.
Organisations establishing a credential exposure baseline for the first time, often as the foundation of a maturing identity protection programme.
A structured approach that turns continuous exposure intelligence into operational defence, with clear responsibilities on both sides.
Define monitored identities, domains, executive targets, alert channels, escalation contacts, and response protocols. Confirm authority and agree the rules of engagement for Active Credential Validation.
Comprehensive baseline scan of all existing exposures across your domains and identities. Recovered credentials are validated, classified by severity, and delivered as the onboarding findings report.
Sonar continuously ingests new exposure data across the surface, deep, and dark web. New findings affecting your nominated identities are extracted, deduplicated, and queued for validation.
Each new finding is tested to determine whether the credential still authenticates against your environment, then reviewed by a senior consultant who filters noise, prioritises by exploitability, and pairs findings with response context.
Validated findings are delivered through your agreed alert channel. Quarterly executive reviews cover trends, validated risk, and recommended actions. Senior consultants remain available for response support throughout the engagement.
Continuous credential monitoring engagements produce intelligence designed to serve both operational response and executive decision-making.
Comprehensive report of all existing credential exposures discovered during the initial onboarding scan, with validation results, severity classification, and recommended immediate actions.
Validated alerts delivered through your agreed channel as new exposures surface, with the full context required to triage and respond, including affected identity, exposure source, validation outcome, and recommended action.
Full cleartext credentials recovered during monitoring, delivered securely and only to the legitimate identity owner. Enables verification, password reuse defence, and direct response action.
For every flagged credential, a validation outcome confirming whether the credential still authenticates against your environment, separating live risk from historical exposure.
Structured quarterly report and walkthrough covering exposure trends across the period, validated risk, source breakdown, identity-level patterns, and prioritised recommendations for leadership and the board.
Senior consultant guidance on response actions for confirmed exposures, including password reset prioritisation, identity hardening, and follow-up steps to prevent recurrence.
Our approach references the standards that define modern credential hygiene and aligns with the compliance frameworks most relevant to Hong Kong-regulated organisations.
Free lookup tools check known public breach datasets and return exposure status only. Sonar continuously collects across public breach data plus infostealer log markets, dark web forums, Telegram channels, paste sites, and private Asia-focused sources that public tools cannot reach. Every finding is delivered in cleartext, validated against your environment to confirm whether the credential still authenticates, and reviewed by a senior consultant before delivery.
Sonar is our proprietary AI-powered collection engine, continuously ingesting credential exposure data across the source categories detailed in our Coverage section, spanning surface, deep, and dark web. The engine operates around the clock rather than on scheduled refresh cycles, automatically processing and validating findings before they reach your team.
Every flagged credential is tested to determine whether it still authenticates against your environment, with the goal of separating live risk from historical leaks that have already been rotated.
Validation is performed under explicit written authorization, against the identity surfaces agreed during scoping. Validation attempts are throttled below your authentication lockout thresholds, sourced from IP addresses whitelisted in advance, and timed to an agreed validation window. Where you operate a SOC, SIEM, or active monitoring tooling, we share validation source IPs, timing, and signatures in advance so resulting events can be correctly attributed rather than triaged as live incidents.
Where MFA is enforced on the identity surface being tested, validation confirms whether the password component still authenticates. Full operational exploitability of a leaked credential in your environment depends on your broader authentication stack including MFA, Conditional Access, and device trust policies, and is contextualised in this light during senior consultant review.
Alerts are delivered through your agreed channel, typically secure email or a per-client confirmed means established during onboarding. As new findings surface in Sonar's collection pipeline they are validated, reviewed by a senior consultant, and delivered with full context as soon as review is complete.
Compromised credential monitoring necessarily involves processing identity data. Our engagement model is built around explicit client authorization, KYC verification, and contractually-defined data handling. As part of KYC, we verify each client's legitimacy and confirm the service is engaged to monitor their own organisation's identities, not as a tool for unauthorized lookup against third parties. Cleartext findings are delivered securely and only to the legitimate identity owner, with encrypted transport, access-controlled storage, and agreed retention and destruction terms.
Active Credential Validation surfaces exactly this distinction. Where the validation result confirms the credential no longer authenticates, the finding is delivered with that context, allowing you to deprioritise it. Validation removes the guesswork of treating every historical exposure as live risk.
False-positive reduction is built into Sonar's collection pipeline through automated deduplication, source quality classification, and AI-powered filtering, and reinforced by senior consultant review of every finding before delivery. The combination eliminates duplicated dumps, synthetic data, low-credibility sources, and findings that do not apply to your environment.
Onboarding typically completes within 1 to 2 weeks of scoping sign-off. The initial exposure scan runs during this period and the onboarding findings report is delivered at the end of week 2. Continuous monitoring begins immediately after onboarding closes.
Yes. Our Targeted Lookup mode delivers a one-time credential intelligence scan across your domains and nominated identities, with active validation of recovered credentials and a delivered findings report. Many clients use Targeted Lookup as an entry point and convert to Continuous Monitoring afterwards.
Identity provider checks compare submitted passwords against known compromised password lists at password-set time, which is valuable but narrow in scope. They do not surface when your employees' corporate identities are exposed in third-party SaaS breaches, in infostealer logs harvested from infected endpoints, or in credential dumps that never enter mainstream leak datasets. They also do not validate whether an exposed credential still works against your environment. Sonar covers the broader credential exposure surface and confirms live risk through Active Credential Validation.
Yes. On request, we issue a formal Letter of Attestation summarising the engagement scope, monitoring period, methodology followed, and high-level outcome. The attestation is suitable for audit, regulatory submission, and third-party assurance purposes including HKMA C-RAF, ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, and similar obligations.
Schedule a scoping call with our specialists to define the right monitoring scope for your organisation. We will walk you through Sonar's coverage, the validation process, deliverables, and onboarding timeline.