{"slug": "huntress-ceo-says-threat-hunter-used-poor-judgment-in-alerting-ransomware-crim", "title": "Huntress CEO says threat hunter used 'poor judgment' in alerting ransomware crim about law enforcement probe", "summary": "Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan stated that a threat hunter employed by the cybersecurity firm used 'poor judgment' when he alerted ransomware criminals about a law enforcement probe into their activities. The incident has raised concerns about the ethical boundaries of threat intelligence work.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nsecurity\n\n#### Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools\n\n29% of security pros were open to fully autonomous pentesting last year; now only 9% are\n\n-\noffbeat\n\n#### Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great\n\n61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead\n\n-\nai and ml\n\n#### AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution\n\nDB wrangling tech needs to meet demands of AI agents, Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball tells El Reg\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### Security researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection\n\nIf you want a picture of the future of LLM security, imagine Whac-a-Mole meets Groundhog Day\n\n-\nsecurity\n\n#### AI may be good at finding security vulnerabilities, but it can't beat human stupidity\n\nYou don't need Mythos or GPT-5.5-Cyber to find a vuln to exploit when the world's password habits are so sloppy\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up\n\nNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default\n\n-\n#### Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form\n\nRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK\n\n-\n#### Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'\n\nMore Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too\n\n-\n#### France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well\n\nNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another\n\n-\n#### History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system\n\nWhen a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'\n\n-\n#### Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it\n\nProject Headroom could save you big money, too", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/huntress-ceo-says-threat-hunter-used-poor-judgment-in-alerting-ransomware-crim", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/30/huntress-ceo-says-threat-hunter-used-poor-judgment-in-alerting-ransomware-crim-about-law-enforcement-probe/5264532", "published_at": "2026-06-30 16:54:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-30 19:51:52.461909+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Huntress", "Kyle Hanslovan"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/huntress-ceo-says-threat-hunter-used-poor-judgment-in-alerting-ransomware-crim", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/huntress-ceo-says-threat-hunter-used-poor-judgment-in-alerting-ransomware-crim.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/huntress-ceo-says-threat-hunter-used-poor-judgment-in-alerting-ransomware-crim.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/huntress-ceo-says-threat-hunter-used-poor-judgment-in-alerting-ransomware-crim.jsonld"}}