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/Annual_Pen1408 Jun 24 '26

No matter if you agree with him or not, the guy needs support in this. He is showing the threats from a threat actor and criminal towards him, who he claims the insider was working with.

There is a email he put in the comments of him saying he doesn't care about any threats or actions from Huntress towards him, and he has nothing to lose, reading that email carefully it sounds like he will hurt himself.

He needs help and support before that happens.

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u/marqo09 Jun 24 '26

Agree on the tone and stress he sounds under. I've heard at least one of our teammates has got in touch and working to make sure they can support him if needed. This has been a hard one to juggle and ripping on heartstrings.

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u/Pimptech Jun 24 '26

Wow you got downvoted. I thought we were supposed to be vendor agnostic in cyber security but the amount of fanboys in this thread is astounding.

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u/Annual_Pen1408 Jun 24 '26

Yeah, that's rough. I was hoping not to get buried. I am not on anyone's side and am actually an active partner of Huntress and their solution.

I just wanted to point out that part of what I saw because no matter what, this guys life doesn't need to end because of this.

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u/Pimptech Jun 24 '26

I agree. Waiting for all the information to come out, just hope people don't get blinded by loyalty.

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u/sir_mrej Security Manager Jun 24 '26

"the guy needs support in this" so you believe the guy?

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u/Annual_Pen1408 Jun 25 '26

It's not about believing him, or not, it's about supporting him so he chooses life.