All Huntress Blog Posts
All Huntress Blog Posts
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Home Field Advantage: How Attackers Reshape Victim Environments
See how a threat actor used SQL injection and BadIIS to gain persistence, disable Windows Defender, and quietly install a cryptominer.
Akira, LimeWire, and the Sour Taste of Data Exfiltration
A recent investigation uncovered an Akira affiliate abusing a website owned by file-sharing app LimeWire for data exfiltration. Here's how the attack unfolded.
Beyond the RaaS Headlines: The Reality of Ransomware Tradecraft
The ransomware name on the ransom note doesn't tell the full story. See how RaaS affiliates drive initial access, persistence, and exfiltration and what defenders should watch for.
Trial, Error, and Typos: Why Some Malware Attacks Aren't as 'Sophisticated' as You Think
The threat reports make every attacker sound like they're running a perfect playbook. The telemetry tells a different story: typos, failed attempts, and a lot of trial and error before anything works.
Velociraptor Misuse, Pt. I: WSUS-Up?
Huntress analysts caught threat actors exploiting a WSUS vulnerability, then turning a legitimate open-source forensic tool into command-and-control infrastructure. Part 1 of a two-part investigation.
Dispelling Ransomware Deployment Myths
The ransomware headlines focus on encryption and skip everything in between. Huntress covers the initial access, the human decisions, and the mistakes that public reporting tends to clean up.
Insights: RMM Tools
Huntress sees RMM tool usage across thousands of SMB environments — legitimate, suspicious, and straight-up malicious. Here's what the visibility reveals about how RMMs are being abused.
Threat Intel Accelerates Detection & Response
Huntress analysts identified novel use of finger.exe for data exfiltration, documented it internally, and then used that intelligence to accelerate detection on the next incident. Here's how it played out.
Why Having Backups Isn't Enough
Having backups feels like a safety net until an attack reveals the holes. Here's why backups alone are not enough and what it actually takes to recover after a serious incident.