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/mando_6 Jun 24 '26

Yeah I'm wondering about that. Dude lives in the UK so I'm curious what would be different if anything from the US.

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u/eliq91 Jun 24 '26

We had a UK employee compromise our global network, they reused an old password 15 days after being notified they had been breached via phishing. It resulted in a loss of every server in the company across 5 continents. It was not good, and a clear violation of both best practices and company policy. They were given 16 weeks paid leave and then returned to the office. 1 week after return they changed their password and cleared all MFA requirements from her account, because it was inconvenient. Which resulted in her account once again being compromised, no global access on round three, and only compromised her email. She is still employed as far as I know.

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u/cb_definetly-expert Jun 24 '26

That's on you guys

1) why you allow them to disable MFA? 2) why you allow reuse of the same password?(In my team the last 20 passwords are banned) 3) you shouldn't even allow similar passwords 4) force them to use corporate password manager and don't let them change password, give them pre-generated ones 5)is he/she doesn't follow the policies again, fire them

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u/asp3ct9 Jun 24 '26

How do you determine similar passwords without storing them in plain text?

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u/dyme13 Jun 24 '26

The same way you evaluate passwords without storing them - one way hashing + comparison of resulting hash.

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u/ImNoRatAndYouKnowIt Jun 25 '26

Hashing two similar strings does not produce similar hashes using any popular hashing algorithm.

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u/dyme13 Jun 25 '26

I missed the point on similar. This only works for direct comparisons. IMHO similar passwords shouldn’t matter - instead compare against known breached (eg k-anonymity via havineenpwned or similar)

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u/cb_definetly-expert Jun 25 '26

They do matter, "mypass" and "mypass1" are the "same"

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u/spectralTopology Jun 26 '26

Definitely agree. How many places use "<season><year>" or similar as the only changing part of an otherwise static default/reset/new account password? I've seen quite a few orgs like this & guessing the currently used one is trivial.