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SAT effectiveness | Huntress

Learn the truth about SAT effectiveness. Our latest report reveals why increased spending on training isn’t reducing human risk—and how to fix it.

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How EDR Telemetry Powers Managed Investigations

Learn more about what it actually means to go up against hackers–and why creative, human-led investigations are essential for keeping your organization safe from modern threats.

How Malicious Hackers Try to Infiltrate Your IT Team

Malicious hackers are impersonating IT and cybersecurity professionals to infiltrate your systems and steal sensitive data. Learn how to identify and defend against these insider threats and protect your organization from "fake workers."

Tracking MuddyWater in Action: Infrastructure, Malware and Operations during 2025

The blog provides an in-depth look at MuddyWater’s evolution in tooling, targeting, and infrastructure management, suggesting a more mature and capable advanced persistent threat within the META region.

Entra ID actor token validation bug allowing cross-tenant global admin

A critical vulnerability discovered in Microsoft's Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) allowed for cross-tenant access and potential global admin privilege escalation. The flaw was found in the legacy Azure AD Graph API, which improperly validated the originating tenant for undocumented "Actor tokens." An attacker could use a token from their own tenant to authenticate as any user, including Global Admins, in any other tenant. This vulnerability bypassed security policies like Conditional Access. The …

Supporting Rowhammer research to protect the DRAM ecosystem

Posted by Daniel MoghimiRowhammer is a complex class of vulnerabilities across the industry. It is a hardware vulnerability in DRAM where repeatedly accessing a row of memory can cause bit flips in adjacent rows, leading to data corruption. This can be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to data, escalate privileges, or cause denial of service. Hardware vendors have deployed various mitigations, such as ECC and Target Row Refresh (TRR) for DDR5 memory, to mitigate Rowhammer and e…

Agneyastra to the Rescue: Protecting your Firebase Projects before the Tea spills out!

In July 2025, the Tea app 🔗, a mental health and social community platform, experienced a devastating breach that spilled 72,000 images (including 13,000 driver’s license and verification selfies) and over 1.1 million private direct messages onto the internet. The leaks first surfaced on 4chan and quickly spread across forums, torrents, and underground channels. This was not “just another API key leak.” Instead, it was a story about Firebase misconfigurations, poor data retention practices, an…

How Pixel and Android are bringing a new level of trust to your images with C2PA Content Credentials

Posted by Eric Lynch, Senior Product Manager, Android Security, and Sherif Hanna, Group Product Manager, Google C2PA Core At Made by Google 2025, we announced that the new Google Pixel 10 phones will support C2PA Content Credentials in Pixel Camera and Google Photos. This announcement represents a series of steps towards greater digital media transparency: The Pixel 10 lineup is the first to have Content Credentials built in across every photo created by Pixel Camera. The Pixel Camera app achie…

TecCom TecConnect 4.1 XML External Entity (XXE)

CVE-2025-10183

AI-Powered Celebrity Impersonation Scams: A Threat Intelligence Report by RedHunt Labs

Introduction A new wave of AI-powered investment scams is targeting Indian users on Facebook and Instagram, luring them with fake celebrity endorsements and deepfake interviews. Ads featuring figures like Nirmala Sitharaman, Sadhguru, and Neha Kakkar promote fraudulent schemes, directing users to counterfeit news websites mimicking The Times of India, IndiaTime, and NDTV. These sites claim celebrities have built fortunes using exclusive investment strategies, persuading victims to deposit ₹21,0…

An Attacker’s Blunder Gave Us a Look Into Their Operations

An attacker installed Huntress onto their operating machine, giving us a detailed look at how they’re using AI to build workflows, searching for tools like Evilginx, and researching targets like software development companies.

10 Cybersecurity Podcasts to Add to Your Queue Now

From Deepfakes to Dark LLMs: 5 use-cases of how AI is Powering Cybercrime

AI in cybercrime is evolving fast, fueling AI phishing attacks, AI scam calls, AI voice cloning scams, and even AI deepfake scams. From Dark LLMs to next-gen AI phishing tactics, we break down how criminals exploit AI today and what you can do to stay protected.

Obscura, an Obscure New Ransomware Variant

Huntress found a previously unseen ransomware variant called Obscura on a victim company’s domain controller.

Debunking Microsoft 365 & Identity Myths

Don’t fall for common Microsoft 365 identity security myths. Here, Huntress debunks misconceptions around logins, MFA, Conditional Access, Impossible Travel, and security tuning.

From a Fake AnyDesk Installer to MetaStealer

Learn how a fake AnyDesk installer led to a unique MetaStealer attack, highlighting how threat actors evolve ClickFix techniques beyond the classic playbook to steal credentials and files.

ShadowSilk: A Cross-Border Binary Union for Data Exfiltration

This blog describes attacks on victims in Central Asia and APAC. Research into the attack has identified a group also called YoroTrooper. We also identified profiles of attackers on hacker forums, their malicious web-panels, test infections of attackers' own machines, and screenshots of attackers' desktops.

Join Huntress' John Hammond & Dave Kleinatland on a | Huntress

Huntress researchers take a tour through the dark web, from innovative threat actor marketing techniques to cybercrime drama on BreachForums.

Should MSPs Turn Off Google Gemini? | Huntress

Hackers are using Google Gemini's email summaries to sneak in phishing attacks without links or attachments.

Vulnérabilité dans Citrix NetScaler ADC et NetScaler Gateway (26 août 2025)

Le 26 août 2025, Citrix a publié un bulletin de sécurité (cf. section Documentation) concernant, entre autres, la vulnérabilité CVE-2025-7775. Celle-ci permet une exécution de code arbitraire à distance et affecte toutes les versions de Citrix NetScaler ADC et NetScaler Gateway, dans certaines...

Trust issues: How email threats hide behind your partners

The most widely used email security tools still focus on yesterday’s threats. Meanwhile, attackers have moved on. By hijacking legitimate business relationships and embedding infostealers in familiar-sounding, well-written emails, cybercriminals bypass conventional defenses. The only way to keep up is by using a behavioral approach.

Ten Years of Resilience, Innovation & Community-Driven Defense

Celebrate 10 years of wrecking hackers! See how Huntress has evolved and elevated in an ever-changing cybersecurity landscape, shaped by key milestones and critical lessons.

Cephalus Ransomware: Don’t Lose Your Head

In mid-August, Huntress saw two incidents that linked back to a ransomware variant called Cephalus, which included DLL sideloading via a legitimate SentinelOne executable.

Dataform cross-tenant path traversal

Dataform could have allowed a malicious customer to gain unauthorized cross-tenant access to other customer's code repositories and data. By preparing a maliciously crafted package.json file, an attacker could exploit a path traversal vulnerability in the npm package installation process, thereby gaining read and write access in other customers' repositories. According to Google, there was no evidence of exploitation in the wild.

Evolving Mule Tactics in the META Region Banking Sector

Discover how mule operators evolved in META-region banks—from IP masking to Starlink tactics with advanced GPS spoofing, SIM abuse, and device muling—and how layered fraud detection strategies fought back.

Exposing Data Exfiltration | Huntress

Threat actors often steal data during the course of their attacks. This is particularly true for ransomware threat actors, who do it before deploying file encryption in order to engage in “double extortion” activities. This activity can be difficult to detect, particularly if it’s not dissimilar to legitimate actions taken by system administrators.

90 Data Breach Trends & Statistics for 2026

Learn the top data breach statistics of the last several years and learn about common causes, how they vary by industry, and future trends.

Kawabunga, Dude, You’ve Been Ransomed!

Thanks in large part to our customer base, Huntress sees a great deal of interesting activity, particularly from threat actors (but also from admins). Part of that activity includes not just ransomware variants that Huntress hasn’t seen before, but also variants that may not have been documented via any public means. Further, when these incidents occur, Huntress very often gets a detailed look at the threat actor’s activity, including commands and their timing.

AWS ECS Agent Information Disclosure Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Amazon ECS agent could allow an introspection server to be accessed off-host. This information disclosure issue, if exploited, could allow another instance in the same security group to access the server's data. The vulnerability does not affect instances where off-host access is set to 'false'. The issue has been patched in version 1.97.1 of the ECS agent.