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Most of us in IT spend our energy trying to keep attackers out. But a recent incident investigated by Huntress tells us a lot about what happens after an attacker gets in (and why it matters just as much). Once an attacker has gained initial access, they don’t rush straight to the smash-and-grab, doing things

American semiconductor company Analog Devices announced that an unauthorized party accessed some of its systems and exfiltrated certain files. The company detected the incident on June 23 and reacted by activating its incident response protocols to limit the breach. External cybersecurity experts have been contracted to assist with the containment and investigation activities. Currently, there

Threat actors are impersonating IT support staff in Microsoft Teams calls to gain remote access to corporate devices and deploy Chaos ransomware in attacks targeting North American organizations. Sophos tracks the campaign as STAC4749 and says it targeted dozens of organizations between February and June 2026. At least three of these intrusions led to the

Residential security company Brinks Home has disclosed that hackers breached some of its systems and are threatening to leak allegedly stolen data. ​The company identified the attack on July 20 and immediately activated its incident response procedure to contain the breach. William Niles, CEO at Brinks Home, said that the company’s team was working with

Broadcom has released security updates to fix five vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter, ESX, Workstation, and Fusion, including three critical flaws that allow attackers to bypass authentication, execute arbitrary code, or escape from a virtual machine to the host. The vulnerabilities also affect products containing vCenter or ESX, including VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere Foundation, VMware