All Huntress Blog Posts

All Huntress Blog Posts

All things cybersecurity engaging and accessible - so you can stay ahead of hackers and boost your cybersecurity savviness.

Author: Adam Rice
Turning TTPs into CTF Challenges: Huntress CTF 2024 Retro
Turning TTPs into CTF Challenges: Huntress CTF 2024 Retro

Six thousand people opened Calculator at the same time — and none of them were doing math. Here's the behind-the-scenes story of how Huntress turned real attacker TTPs into CTF 2024 challenges.

Beware of Traitorware: Using Splunk for Persistence
Beware of Traitorware: Using Splunk for Persistence

Splunk is a security tool. In the wrong hands, it's also a persistence mechanism. Huntress details how the Splunk Universal Forwarder can be weaponized by an attacker who already has access.

June 6, 2023
Traitorware and Living Off the Land: Using Splunk to Exfiltrate Data
Traitorware and Living Off the Land: Using Splunk to Exfiltrate Data

Before joining Huntress, this analyst spent years as a Splunk admin and noticed something. Here's how Splunk's built-in features can be weaponized for data exfiltration using living-off-the-land techniques.

April 11, 2023