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.
What comes next: Huntress hits an inflection point
CEO Kyle Hanslovan outlines how Huntress is evolving its research-led strategy, adopting AI with human oversight, and expanding its partner network to protect businesses against rapid, automated cyberattacks.
Business Reflection: $250M ARR Was Never the Goal. It Came From Staying True to Our Mission.
Hitting $250M ARR is a milestone, but it wasn't the goal. CEO Kyle Hanslovan reflects on Huntress' mission to protect the 99% and why staying true to it remains his top priority."
These Recent Insider Threat Allegations
Huntress responds to recent public allegations of an insider threat, separating fact from speculation and sharing how we approach ethics, transparency, and trust.
Here’s to the Future: Our Latest Funding Will Fuel Big Innovations, Bold Acquisitions, and a More Secure Global Community
Huntress is marking another funding milestone and looking ahead. CEO Kyle Hanslovan reflects on the journey from a three-person team to a global security mission — and what comes next.
Huntress MDR for Microsoft 365 Update
Over the past year, Huntress built toward a tidal wave of identity-focused tradecraft. Here's the Microsoft 365 MDR product update: what's changed, what's been added, and what's coming.
Huntress Heads Into Q2 Serving More SMBs and 2 Million Endpoints
Huntress is now securing more than two million endpoints a milestone that started with a clear mission in 2015. Here's where the company is headed and what it means for the SMBs it protects.
I Have a Lot to be Thankful for in 2020
Five years after Huntress started, Kyle looks back at Thanksgiving 2015 — a punk with hacking skills, an MSP community without security knowledge, and what grew from that unlikely starting point.
Phishing, Office 365 and the Commercialization of Cybercrime
Hackers operate at the same maturity level as leading software vendors now. Here's how the commercialization of cybercrime has changed phishing, Office 365 targeting, and the threat landscape.
Validating the SolarWinds N-central “Dumpster Diver” Vulnerability
Huntress validated a SolarWinds N-central vulnerability that quietly allowed attackers to enumerate devices. Here's the technical breakdown, and what SolarWinds patched to fix it.
Assisted Remediation in Action
An Emotet/TrickBot infection hit 50+ endpoints at once. Huntress walked through a live response using Assisted Remediation beta, and it was the exact scenario the feature was built for.
Incident Education: Sales Ammo for the IT Arsenal
The cybersecurity industry runs on FUD, but real incidents make stronger arguments than fear ever will. Huntress shows MSPs how to use actual threat data as honest, effective sales context.
Rapid Response: ASUS Live Update Attack (Operation ShadowHammer)
Operation ShadowHammer turned ASUS's own update tool against its users. Huntress answers the key questions about this global supply chain attack and what IT departments needed to do immediately.
Attackers Abuse Trust with Indirection
Antivirus got better at detecting malicious behavior. So attackers got better at hiding behind trusted processes. This post covers how indirection lets them evade even modern heuristic detection.
Ask Huntress: Fake .XPS Invoice Leading to Credential Phishing
The first Ask Huntress: a fake .XPS invoice arrived in a partner's inbox and led somewhere unexpected. Here's how Huntress traced it to a credential phishing page.
Deep Dive: Kaseya VSA Mining Payload
When Kaseya VSA was compromised, Huntress ThreatOps went deep on the technical analysis. Here's what was actually inside the malicious payload — and what it was designed to do.