# Huntress CEO says threat hunter used 'poor judgment' in alerting ransomware crim about law enforcement probe > Source: > Published: 2026-06-30 16:54:01+00:00 ### MOST POPULAR [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai) - security #### Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools 29% of security pros were open to fully autonomous pentesting last year; now only 9% are - offbeat #### Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great 61% 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 - ai and ml #### AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution DB wrangling tech needs to meet demands of AI agents, Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball tells El Reg - AI and ML #### Security researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection If you want a picture of the future of LLM security, imagine Whac-a-Mole meets Groundhog Day - security #### AI may be good at finding security vulnerabilities, but it can't beat human stupidity You don't need Mythos or GPT-5.5-Cyber to find a vuln to exploit when the world's password habits are so sloppy [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security) - Security #### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! - Security #### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more - Black Hat and DEF CON #### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included - Security #### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified - Malware Month #### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career [FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS) - #### Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default - #### Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form Retro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK - #### Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release' More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too - #### France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well Nextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another - #### History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product' - #### Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it Project Headroom could save you big money, too