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…
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…
Huntress announced the Identity Posture Assessment, an on-demand report in Huntress Managed ISPM that scores a Microsoft 365 tenant against the Huntress Identity Security Framework. This is a product announcement, not a security incident. Huntress cites its own data: 79% of critical and high-severity SOC incident reports last year were ti…
Huntress announced general availability of the Managed ITDR Lookback feature. It reviews up to 180 days of Microsoft 365 login history for newly onboarded tenants, looking for compromises that predate monitoring. Active compromises trigger a critical Incident Report, SOC investigation and session revocation. Previously remediated ones are…
Huntress researchers identified a fake page impersonating the WatchGuard download portal that harvested VPN server addresses, usernames and passwords before offering the legitimate Mobile VPN with SSL installer. The investigation began after suspicious activity involving an administrator at a managed service provider (MSP), who found the …
Huntress explains the compliance obligations of Texas law HB 3834, passed in June 2019. It requires state agency and local government employees, and state contractors, to complete a Department of Information Resources (DIR)-certified cybersecurity awareness training every year. Since September 1, 2025, HB 3512 adds a second annual require…
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 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 …
This vendor blog post from Huntress describes a new integration between the Huntress platform and AlgaPSA, the professional services automation (PSA) product from Nine Minds. Nine Minds built it in a few days using only the public Huntress API documentation. When the Huntress SOC publishes an incident report, it is created as a ticket on …
ConnectWise said it is still responding to a security incident involving unauthorized access to application identities tied to Cloud Backup. The incident was identified on October 14, 2026, and mitigations began rolling out on October 17. The company has disabled the affected application connections, suspended Cloud Backup, and suspended …
Siemens warned customers that attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-110936 (CVSS 8.4), a DLL side-loading vulnerability in Siemens Software Center, to distribute malware. The activity is attributed to the Romulus multi-platform ClickFix campaign. Romulus is a server hosting panel identified by Forescout researchers on October 14 that…
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…
Forescout's Vedere Labs has documented ROMULUS, a previously unknown malware delivery platform used in ClickFix campaigns, and new delivery techniques for loaders tied to Vice Society ransomware activity. The server hosting the ROMULUS panel was found during an incident investigation, and six IP addresses exposed the same authentication i…
ConnectWise disclosed on October 16 that on October 15 it detected unauthorized access to application identities in its Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) environment. It suspended Cloud Backup, plus the integrated SaaS Security and Cloud Management services, as a precaution. As of 16:00 UTC on October 18 the services were still down, so end…
ConnectWise suspended its Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) service and took SaaS Security and Cloud Management offline after unknown attackers obtained unauthorized access to seven of its application identities. The company detected the incident on October 14, disabled the compromised identities on October 17, and is still investigating ho…
Attackers used compromised application credentials from ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to access Microsoft 365 customer environments. Huntress researcher Jonathan Semon confirmed unauthorized sign-ins across 162 tenants as of 19:00 UTC on October 16. ConnectWise disabled application access, which interrupted backup services, …
ConnectWise disabled seven application identities on October 17, 2026 after unknown threat actors gained unauthorized access to them and used them to compromise Microsoft 365 tenants. The company detected the issue on October 14 and has suspended Cloud Backup, SaaS Security and Cloud Management while it investigates. Huntress observed alm…
ConnectWise took several cloud services offline, including Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick), SaaS Security and Cloud Management, after finding unauthorized access to application identities in the ConnectWise Cloud Backup environment. The company began investigating suspicious activity on October 15 and confirmed the unauthorized access by …
A Huntress vendor blog post lists 10 endpoint security trends. It reports no specific incident, vulnerability or campaign. The themes are agentic AI and the hijacking of non-human identities, ransomware shifting to double and triple extortion, incident response (IR) readiness, EDR-to-XDR consolidation, identity-first security and zero tru…