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 published a vendor blog post on the role and limits of Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) in modern data protection. It explains that VSS remains a core framework for application-consistent snapshots on Windows workloads but should not be treated as a complete recovery or ransomware defense. The article warns that modern …
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…
This Huntress vendor blog post is educational and promotional content, not a report of a specific threat or incident. It compares 13 cybersecurity and regulatory frameworks, including NIST CSF 2.0, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001, CIS Critical Security Controls, COBIT, HIPAA, PCI DSS 4.0, SOC 2, MITRE ATT&CK, CMMC 2.0, GLBA, FISMA and FFIEC CAT…
A Huntress educational blog post describes the dark web as a business ecosystem rather than a purely chaotic space. The authors browsed .onion sites through Tor Browser in a virtual machine with JavaScript disabled. They found threat actors operating storefronts with About Us pages, tiered service packages, customer reviews and FAQs. Paym…
This is a Huntress employee spotlight on Sarah Reddish, a Security Operations Analyst in the company's global SOC (Triage & Analysis). It describes the analyst role: investigating suspicious activity and intrusions, building attack timelines and scope, and writing reports with practical remediation guidance for partners. The only incident…