Suzu Labs Acquires Emulated Criminals to Boost AI Cybersecurity

The acquisition helps Suzu Labs combine AI based security with ongoing human testing, moving beyond one time checks to provide continuous, robust protection. The financial details of the deal were not shared.

With this acquisition, Suzu Labs is launching a new Continuous Adversarial Operations (CAO) practice, led by former Emulated Criminals team members Dahvid Schloss and Ann Rinaldi. Using their experience in U.S. Special Operations and cyberattacks, they follow a “train how you fight” approach to test security by simulating real attackers at scale. This CAO team will play a key role in Suzu Labs’ Hacker in the Loop™ model.

The platform is known for its expert-led approach to simulating real attackers, replicating the methods used by active threats across cyber, human, and physical domains to uncover weaknesses that traditional testing often misses. When added to Suzu Labs’ platform, these features give customers continuous security testing based on real behavior, along with AI-powered risk management and defense tools.

Suzu Labs provides a wide range of services, including penetration testing, attacker simulation, incident response, virtual CISO support, AI risk advice, and exposure monitoring. This gives customers a single, unified way to secure their digital systems and to adopt AI.

As attackers increasingly use automation and AI, the need for continuous, realistic security testing is growing. This acquisition helps Suzu Labs become a modern cybersecurity partner that enables companies to stay ahead of emerging threats.

The CAO team runs continuous attack simulations from different angles—like phishing, ransomware, insider threats, and physical break-ins—to test not just technology but also the people and processes behind security. These capabilities strengthen Suzu Labs’ ability to check and improve security across complex systems continuously.

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"AI is cheapening the discovery side of offensive security, and that is fine with us," said Mike Bell, Founder and CEO of Suzu Labs. "Discovery was never where the real work was. The real work is judgment, campaign design, and detection validation. That is what Adversarial Exposure Validation is actually about, and none of it scales through automation alone. It requires Hacker in the Loop™, the human-led layer of AEV that automation cannot replicate. Dahvid Schloss and his team built the depth in adversary emulation and offensive malware development we needed, and they are now the Suzu Labs Continuous Adversarial Operations team. Not automation alone. Not humans alone. Hacker in the Loop."

“Building Emulated Criminals has been an incredible and quite enjoyable journey, and I'm excited to share our next chapter as we officially join forces with Suzu Labs,” states Dahvid Schloss, former CEO at Emulated Criminals and now COO at Suzu Labs. ”Before, our focus was strictly high-end bespoke offensive security services. Helping clients truly understand how to ‘Train how they fight.’ But now, by combining our flagship continuous adversarial emulation service, which we call Emulated Crime as a Service, with Suzu's deep defensive and advisory expertise, we can offer even more to our clients with a truly 360-degree approach to security.”

Schloss adds, “At our core, we have always cared most about the betterment of our industry. This move lets us amplify that contribution and address new and existing security challenges at a much larger scale. I will always live by the ‘Train how you fight’ motto, and I know Suzu Labs has the same mentality. I look forward to working with everyone in this new endeavor.”

About Suzu Labs

Founded in 2021 by Michael Bell, Suzu Labs is a cybersecurity and AI company that helps organizations use technology safely. It combines security testing, risk management, and AI integration to identify weaknesses, strengthen defenses and embed security at every stage of technology use. The company offers services like penetration testing, incident response, virtual CISO support and AI risk advisory, helping businesses reduce risk while growing and innovating faster.

About Emulated Criminals

Founded in 2020, by Dahvid Schloss, Emulated Criminals is a cybersecurity company that focuses on continuous attacker simulation through its ECaaS model. It recreates real world attack scenarios across cyber, human and physical domains to help organizations identify weaknesses and strengthen their defenses.

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