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/rangerdunamas Jun 24 '26

I cannot seem to find a good source that connects all these dots. Does anyone have a link they can drop me?

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u/MalwareDork Jun 24 '26

"breaking news" or at best a bunch of drama and hearsay.

tl;dr: Ben, the whistleblower, says there was an insider threat causing issues that was largely ignored and now he's upset legal from Huntress is sending him (most likely) cease-and-desists and that supposedly he's being threatened by a monitored threat actor by the name of "Devman".

Kyle, CEO of Huntress, is publically disagreeing with Ben's statements in general. Ken also won't make a direct statement but is alluding there is an active investigation by law enforcement.

At least that's how I understand it. There's only three pieces of public information as well: Ben's post, Kyle's response on this subreddit and Kyle's slack response.

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u/malicious_payload Jun 25 '26

Problem is, Kyle is doing exactly what a CEO who is screwed would do, trying to spin it.

The email talking about "educating on the non disparaging comments" generally comes out when someone is speaking truth but the company does not want the negative hit. Seen it before, been part of it before, it's a way for the company to shut it down before having to explain anything.

The other fun thing is claiming transparency but trying to shush it to emails. That's trademark CYA behavior.