Adversarial Pivot Dashboard

Attacker counter-strategies against hardened choke points  |  Arch-B Finacle & Arch-C Custom cascade paths  |  50 institutions

Strategies

Compromised

$9.11B

Est. Loss

+0.0h

Adapt Delay

Arch-D

Entry Point

$7.98B

Hardened Loss

$4.58B

Best Defense

⚠ Select Attack Strategy

🌐 Network Topology

Arch D (Critical Pivot)

Arch A

Arch B (Finacle)

Arch C (Custom+Fed)

Arch E

Hardened

📈 Cascade Speed — All 7 Strategies

📈 Loss Comparison

🔗 Propagation Vectors

🌐 Archetype DistributionT+22h

📊 Trajectory Divergence vs Baseline

🔴 Critical Finding

Arch-E Back Door: $7.79B with 0.5h delay

Arch-E credential reuse achieves near-baseline losses with only 30 minutes of reconnaissance. The $0.8M D5 hardening is 86% ineffective against this counter-strategy.

Multi-Vector: $7.26B with 1.5h delay

Blending all vectors simultaneously achieves high losses with moderate delay. Hardening must address all vectors simultaneously.

🟡 Finacle & Custom SWIFT

Finacle API Pivot: $5.22B (+2h delay)

Arch-B Finacle institutions have no shared credentials — propagation relies on API exploits and correspondent pivots. Slower cascade but still reaches 45/50 institutions.

Custom SWIFT RCE: $4.58B (+3h) — Best Defense

Arch-C's 60-80% CSP compliance slows propagation significantly. The 3h adaptation delay + stronger internal controls make this the least effective adversarial pivot.

✅ Counter-Counter-Strategy

Priority 1: Extend Hardening to Arch-E (+$2.4M, 12h)

Closes the 30-minute back door. Eliminates the $7.79B Arch-E pivot. Must be deployed simultaneously with D5 hardening.

Priority 2: Finacle API Monitoring (+$0.3M, 2 weeks)

Deploy SWIFTProcessMonitor equivalent for Finacle REST API. Reduces Finacle pivot loss from $5.22B to ~$1.2B.