Huntress announced Attack Reduction, a new capability in Huntress Managed ESPM (Early Access) that disables the "Windows key + R" shortcut for users who never use the Run dialog, aiming to break the most common ClickFix attack chain. The post opens with an attempted fake-CAPTCHA lure that targeted a Huntress employee on a spoofed airport …
Huntress analyzed an active credential-phishing campaign in which the lookalike domain watchguard-vpn.net harvests WatchGuard SSL VPN credentials. On October 7, 2026, an administrator at a managed service provider searched Bing for "watchguard vpn sll download" and clicked through to the fake page, which Huntress classifies as SEO poisoni…
Huntress argues that passkeys raise the bar for authentication but do not close the account lifecycle: attackers still target enrollment, recovery, compromised endpoints, alternative sign-in flows and social engineering. Huntress researchers tracked a device-code phishing campaign, EvilTokens, that hit 344 organizations across five countr…
A ClickFix malvertising campaign uses sponsored Google results for "amazon business" to lure victims to a fake Amazon login page on Google Sites and then to a fake CAPTCHA. The CAPTCHA pastejacks a command into the clipboard that the victim is told to run in the Windows Run box. The command abuses the legacy finger.exe utility to fetch a …
Huntress published an explainer on business email compromise (BEC), a targeted form of phishing in which attackers impersonate or take over trusted email accounts to redirect payments or steal credentials. The article cites roughly $55 billion in worldwide losses and a Huntress survey of 500+ US IT professionals, in which 36% of organizat…
Huntress reports that a stolen vendor credential for ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) was used on October 15, 2026 to obtain Microsoft Graph tokens in customer Microsoft 365 tenants from the hosting IP 144.172.64.128. As of 19:00 UTC on October 16, Huntress had confirmed unauthorized sign-ins in 162 tenants. Later updates found…
A Huntress thought-leadership post sets out five priorities for security leaders in 2026: abuse of trusted IT tools, AI-enabled cybercrime, social engineering, multi-extortion ransomware and identity-based attacks including BEC. The article cites internal Huntress telemetry showing RMM abuse rising roughly 277% year over year, with Screen…
Huntress reports that manufacturing accounted for about 17% of cyber attacks in 2025, up from 9% in 2024, citing its own cyber threat report. The article is a vendor trends piece rather than an incident report. It argues that ransomware operators now target production uptime and operational technology (OT), not just data, because manufact…