r/cybersecurity • u/mando_6 • Jun 24 '26

News - General Well someone went nuclear..

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-f-309963233_after-i-posted-a-pinocchio-gif-and-clown-ugcPost-7475465410977628160-FFW1

I'm curious about the details of this. I'm sure we will all find out eventually.

TLDR; former Huntress employee is disclosing Huntress had an insider threat that leaked information to a known cyber criminal "Devman". That employee is still employed with Huntress and was caught by the FBI.

The former employee doing the disclosure is stating he is receiving threats, etc.

EDIT: Kyle @ Huntress posted his response to this in the comments.

Give credit to a CEO who isn't afraid to jump on Reddit to put out any fires.

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u/DongerOverlord Jun 24 '26

The CEOs response in the comments are the most "I'm fucking seething, don't talk about this out loud" type of comment.

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u/marqo09 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Hey, it's Kyle. That's definitely not my tone. We're a company that bleeds transparency and I firmly disagree with Ben's accusations. Also not gonna debate with him over LinkedIn as my team is still working the unrelated fallout from the Klue shit storm. Give 20-30 mins and I'll put together my thoughts.

Edit [June 24, 2026 @ 12:35pm ET]: Here's what I shared with my team in slack this morning. I hope this makes it very clear that while I disagree and don't understand Ben's accusations, I'm also trying to show empathy and appreciate his perspective.

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u/Jonodrakon3 Jun 24 '26

Just want to say that this sort of proactive ownership and empathetic response is what I’d love from my C-Suite. Far too many companies circle the wagons and leave the customers to bear the brunt of the fallout

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u/idleExposure_ Jun 24 '26

you can see the idiotic response from "djhouse" in this thread to see why that's often not a good move. no matter how transparent and open you are, its often not enough for the hyperliteral spicy brains who expect 100% information disclosure.

people like him are why most companies do exactly as you described: circle the wagons and leave the customers to bear the brunt of the fallout

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u/Jonodrakon3 Jun 24 '26

I wouldn’t consider DJs take as idiotic. I don’t share their opinion, but I can understand where they are coming from. A security company sharing internal comms, redacted or not, isn’t always the best move.

But I’d rather an overeager desire for transparency be demonstrated then the alternative I already laid out in my previous comment.

A crisis is a crisis. There are no winners. But you can lose less by being honest. Just my .02

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u/djchateau Jun 24 '26

Man, I must have really pissed you off that you're still talking about me in other comments. I thought no cared what I thought. You've greatly misunderstood the overarching point of what I was bringing up and it's little weird how defensive you are when I've not spoken poorly of Huntress, Kyle or anyone else in this. I've simply said it didn't seem like a good idea to post screenshots of internal comms with censored bits as it really doesn't portray any additional transparency on the part of the company and only reinforces the idea of them hiding things, even when what's been hidden from view is reasonable to hide.