Some of the most effective tradecraft relies on an ancient strategy: trick humans into opening the gates of their own secure environment. A fake CAPTCHA, an urgent prompt, a disguised RMM installer, they're all designed to get an employee to hand over access. And they work.
That's why Huntress takes a layered approach to defending against human-enabled attacks: training employees to recognize the deception, hardening the endpoints and identities your team relies on, and detecting and responding to what gets through. One platform, one SOC, ready for anything attackers try next.
ClickFix tricks users into running a malicious command via a routine "verification" or software fix, and it's not a fringe tactic. It drove over 50% of the malware loader activity Huntress tracked in its 2026 Cyber Threat Report.
Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training (SAT) teaches your team to recognize the deception. Training is built on real tradecraft pulled straight from the Huntress SOC, so it prepares them for real-world situations.
Stale accounts, missing MFA, overly broad permissions, and remote access tools running from the downloads folder turn one click into a wide-open path, no extra deception required. Most hackers don't break in; they just take advantage of messy settings and bad defaults.
Huntress Managed ISPM and ESPM continuously find and close those gaps in Microsoft 365 and on the endpoint, so a single mistake has fewer places to go.
Training and hardening reduce risk, but don't eliminate it. When attackers find a way into a target environment, they move fast – installing persistent footholds, running infostealers, setting up malicious email forwarding, and even deploying ransomware.
Huntress Managed EDR is built to catch exactly that kind of activity on the endpoint: unauthorized RMM installs, infostealer execution, and the malware that follows, stopped before it can spread further.
Because attackers just as often go after identities, Managed ITDR watches Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace for fallout too: rogue mailbox rules, suspicious logins, and stolen session tokens, so a compromised account gets contained before it’s too late.
And because attackers don't limit themselves, Managed SIEM monitors the spaces in between and earlier in the attack chain. By analyzing operating logs, firewalls, and cloud logs, it catches the lateral movement and infrastructure changes that signal a broader attack.
60%
Of breaches involve a human element. (Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report).
50%
Of malware loader activity Huntress tracked started with ClickFix. (Huntress 2026 Cyber Threat Report).
277%
Year-over-year increase in RMM Abuse. (Huntress 2026 Cyber Threat Report).
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.
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)
Finds and stops identity-based threats in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace—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.
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.
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.
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 finds and closes misconfigurations, risky access, and policy drift in Microsoft 365 so those attack paths stay closed.
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.
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ClickFix is a social-engineering technique that tricks users into copying and running a malicious command themselves, usually framed as fixing an error, passing a CAPTCHA, or completing a "required" step. Because there's no file to download and no obvious malicious link, it slips past a lot of the instincts people are trained to trust — which is why it's become one of the fastest-growing loader techniques Huntress sees today.
Attackers don’t only target software or hardware vulnerabilities, they target people too. A rushed click, a trusted-looking login prompt, a “quick fix” from IT, each one can hand an attacker access without a single technical vulnerability involved. That’s the human element, tradecraft aimed at exploiting a person instead of a system. It shows up as social engineering, ClickFix, phishing, rogue RMM installers, and more, and a majority of breaches rely on the human element at some point in the attack chain.
No. A successful click or approved prompt isn't the end of the story; it's the start of a chain that Huntress is built to interrupt. Managed EDR and ITDR watch for what happens next: an unauthorized RMM install, an infostealer harvesting credentials, a suspicious login using a stolen session. Catching any of those steps stops the chain before it reaches ransomware or account takeover.
Traditional antivirus and email filters are built to catch known-bad files and malicious attachments, but ClickFix commands and legitimate RMM installers don't look like malware at all, because they aren't. Huntress focuses on behavior and identity instead: watching what a tool does once it's running (an unauthorized RMM connecting out, an infostealer harvesting credentials) and what happens to an identity after a login (a new mailbox rule, a sign-in from an unusual location), catching the attacks that slip past signature-based tools entirely.
Our platform combines a suite of powerful managed detection and response tools for endpoints and Microsoft 365 identities, science-backed security awareness training, Managed SIEM, and the expertise of our 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC).
