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What Gets Overlooked Gets Exploited

What gets overlooked gets exploited 

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The little things we put off—or don’t do at all—can become the very things that break us. The danger isn’t the task itself. It’s the false sense of security you get from letting it slide. Reused passwords, delayed updates, unverified links, unprotected endpoints, and so on. Most days, nothing happens. But one day, something will.

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_declassified Ep. 2: The Breach Is on Your Calendar

Everyone has tasks that get pushed out til later. But in cybersecurity, “later” has consequences. On May 20, join Truman Kain and a special guest for a live session on how delayed basics and ignored warning signs turn into real trouble.

May 20, 2026 | 12:00pm EST / 4:00pm GMT

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Stop cybersecurity oversights from becoming incidents

FlexKeeper and Trumball Tech
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FlexKeeper and Trumball Tech

Learn more about Trumbull Tech and Huntress Managed ITDR helped an Accountant avoid financial ruin.

What Does the Dark Web Look Like? Pulling Back the Curtain
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What Does the Dark Web Look Like? Pulling Back the Curtain

This ebook breaks down what modern credential theft means for your business.

2026 Cyber Threat Report: State of Phishing
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2026 Cyber Threat Report: State of Phishing

Phishing has been around forever, but it’s not slowing down. It’s just getting sneakier.

See how small slip-ups turn into big consequences, and what you can do to stay secure.


Phishing | Stolen Access | Building Resiliency | Your 24/7 Team | Huntress Products

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LATEST TRENDS

Uncover the latest cyberattack trends

Attackers refined their playbooks in 2025, prioritizing stealth over speed. The frustrating part is how often outcomes still come down to fundamentals that didn’t get handled in time. The Huntress 2026 Cyber Threat Report breaks down what changed, what stayed familiar, and what we’re seeing most.

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277%

Increase in RMM abuse

50%

Of malware loader activity involved ClickFix & fake CAPTCHAs

3 hrs

Were added to the average time-to-ransom (TTR)

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PHISHING

They’re using your own workflow against you

Attackers fine tune lures to match your day-to-day, and AI helps polish the details. E-sign requests, invoices, and login prompts are now indistinguishable from routine communication. That’s why the goal is resilience: catch it faster and limit the fallout when something slips through.

Learn how phishing really works

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Five Shady Phishing Email Techniques We Spotted
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Five Shady Phishing Email Techniques We Spotted

Hackers don't need much to phish you — a familiar logo, a sense of urgency, and a distraction on a Friday afternoon is all it can take to hand over your credentials without a second thought.

Fusion Computing
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Fusion Computing

At the heart of this story lies a critical partnership that became the decisive barrier between restoring normal operations and total chaos.

Identities Are the New Perimeter: Endpoints Are Only the Beginning
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Identities Are the New Perimeter: Endpoints Are Only the Beginning

It’s time to connect the dots between endpoint and identity because today’s cyberattacks aren’t choosing between the two. They’re using both.

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STOLEN ACCESS

Attackers don’t have to break in if they can log in…as you

Attackers use ill-gotten passwords or session data (cookies or tokens) to pretend they’re legit users. It often starts with phishing or infostealers, though they can steal access in other ways, too. The risk grows when that access isn’t detected quickly and the attacker has time to escalate privileges, move laterally, and persist.

See how stolen access can turn into invoice fraud, impersonation, and account takeovers

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Infostealers Crash Course: A Tradecraft Tuesday Recap
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Infostealers Crash Course: A Tradecraft Tuesday Recap

If a threat actor launches a ransomware, extortion, or identity theft attack, the odds are that infostealers—and the credentials they’ve compromised—are behind it.

Credential Theft: From Initial Access to Lateral Movement
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Credential Theft: From Initial Access to Lateral Movement

At its core, credential theft is the unauthorized acquisition of login credentials such as usernames, passwords, or session tokens by a malicious threat actor.

Unmasking the Central Villain: Inside Adversary-in-the-Middle Attacks
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Unmasking the Central Villain: Inside Adversary-in-the-Middle Attacks

While more infamous cyberattacks—think ransomware or phishing—are the big thugs we’re all fixated on, AiTM lurks just off camera, silently intercepting your data, redirecting traffic, and hijacking sessions without drawing much attention.

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BUILDING RESILIENCY

If the plan ends at “don’t let it happen,” you don’t have a plan

Resilience means spotting trouble early, containing it quickly, and bouncing back fast. This is easier when your incident response and posture management run in a coordinated workflow, and when your insurance coverage aligns with your security controls. And when identity and endpoint signals are correlated in one place, you can prioritize the alerts that matter and act quickly.

If anything puts resilience to the test, it’s ransomware. Learn how it unfolds.

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How to Build a Resilient Security Team
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How to Build a Resilient Security Team

Huntress surveyed 1,050 internal IT and security professionals across North America and the UK to find out where teams actually stand — not where vendor decks say they should be.

Is Your Business Protected? What You Need to Know About Cyber Insurance
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Is Your Business Protected? What You Need to Know About Cyber Insurance

This guide explains what cyber insurance is, what it typically covers, and who benefits most from its protection.

Shifting Left: Huntress Expands Into Proactive Security Posture Management
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Shifting Left: Huntress Expands Into Proactive Security Posture Management

We're thrilled to announce the expansion of the Huntress Agentic Security Platform with two new proactive offerings.

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YOUR 24/7 TEAM

There’s an elite team behind you

When everyday security basics slip, attackers move fast. That’s where the Huntress Adversary Tactics and the 24/7 Security Operations Center come in. These experts track real-world tradecraft, stop threats around the clock, and shut down the kinds of mistakes attackers love to exploit.

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HUNTRESS PRODUCTS

Your Security Platform for Peace of Mind

The Huntress security platform is built, owned, and operated entirely by our team from first signal through remediation. Predictable pricing with no noise, just meaningful alerts.




Huntress Managed EDR doesn't just watch your endpoints—it’s a complete solution. From the second a threat appears until it’s eliminated, we handle everything. You get 24/7 continuous protection, detection, and response that disrupts and remediates threats.

  • Industry-leading MTTR
  • 4.5M Endpoints protected
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Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)

Finds and stops identity-based threats in Microsoft 365—because identity is the new endpoint, and attackers know it. Huntress Managed ITDR is designed to detect, respond to, and resolve critical identity-based threats like account takeovers, business email compromise, unauthorized logins, and more.

  • Industry-leading 3min MTTR
  • 9M identities protected
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Huntress Managed SIEM takes away the complexity and overhead usually associated with traditional SIEMs, giving you everything you need and nothing you don’t. 24/7 threat response and strengthened compliance, fully managed by SOC experts, at a predictable price.

  • Smart Filtering to capture only security-relevant data
  • Total Compliance with long-term retention, search, and reporting
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Engaging, expert-backed, personalized training content built on real-world threat intelligence and created by Emmy® Award-winning animators to reduce human risk and build a strong security culture.

  • Training built on threat intel from 4.5M endpoints and 9M identities
  • 98% completion rate for learners who start assignments
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Most hackers don’t "break in"—they just take advantage of messy settings, bad defaults, and accounts with too much access. Huntress Managed Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) continuously audits and enforces configurations, policies, and permissions in Microsoft 365 so those easy attack paths are never open in the first place.

  • Identity hardening guided by experts, not guesswork
  • Configuration fixes that are faster than attackers move
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Huntress Endpoint Security Posture Management is proactive security that hardens endpoints to defend against attacks like ransomware and infostealers, and prevent breaches. Get broad endpoint visibility and control over configurations, applications, vulnerabilities, and more in one location and a single solution.

  • Reduce the attack surface to take away the hacker’s advantage
  • A managed approach for less overhead and fewer headaches
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