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 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…
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 …
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 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…
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 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…