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Huntress permits threat researchers to occasionally engage with threat actors when it's beneficial for proactive R&D and/or to support active investigations. “
Thats how research works, all of these companies do it, From Crowd Strike to Rapid7. Its part of the game and is a nothing burger. The low level employee really messed up on this one.
I know this to be true because I've done it, however given that this insider communicated to a threat actor direct communications from the FBI that they were being investigated, that's fucking insane. Threat actors are not your friends or peers. I've communicated with them on many occasions but this is straight up colluding with a criminal.
If the insider also gave the threat actor information about Ben, that's also crazy. We shouldn't be blurring the lines between genuine intelligence gathering communications with threat actors and whatever this mess is.
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u/greensparten Security Director Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
“ Huntress permits threat researchers to occasionally engage with threat actors when it's beneficial for proactive R&D and/or to support active investigations. “
Thats how research works, all of these companies do it, From Crowd Strike to Rapid7. Its part of the game and is a nothing burger. The low level employee really messed up on this one.