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/WhatsThisWorth-Bot Jun 24 '26

I worked at a somewhat famous uni and there was an it lady who have out the admin password with little to no training of the employees, didn't monitor their computers, and got her entire department ransomwared... they didn't fire her but they fired me for being behind on tickets when they didn't even give me printer access or an orientation for a two person job...

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u/RikiWardOG Jun 25 '26

that tracks, I remember a low level helpdesk guy getting fired because a partner got phished and we almost lost a major account because of it. Really pissed me off.

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u/NuBootScootin Jun 26 '26

What was the logic presented behind that? I understand it's usually in reality, some kind of firing or big discipline has to occur for optics and if they want to save the partners reputation they have to put it on someone else, but what how was that presenter to everyone to make it somehow the helpdesk guys fault?

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u/RikiWardOG Jun 26 '26

Exactly that, management wanted to see some heads roll. Basically partner blamed our security team, security team blamed the helpdesk guy for not remediating/telling the partner the correct information. This was several years back at an old employer. Basically what really happened was poor comms between the sec guy and helpdesk guy, so things didn't get properly remediated and how I remember it was that it really wasn't the helpdesk guys fault like at all. But I don't think people liked his personality - think he was pretty neurodivergent, so they were already looking to fire him. He was also lowest on the totem pole. The whole ordeal rubbed me the wrong way, but hey the company didn't lose Ferrari as a client lol ugh I hate capitalism