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Security Operations & DetectionThese questions come from security team Slack channels, vCISO office hours, and those 3pm meetings where someone asks, Wait, how do we actually check this? The answers below draw on Huntress s Q1 2026
Security Operations & DetectionCisco confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-76461 on a Monday in September. By that afternoon, your team had already triaged three other critical vulnerabilities across different vendors. Two days
Security Operations & DetectionYour security team monitors for data exfiltration. You ve got data loss prevention (DLP) rules, cloud access policies, and endpoint controls. But when an attacker moves through your environment after
Security Operations & DetectionThe Overlooked Risk Between 2025 and 2026, China-based threat actors known as Fire Ant compromised Cisco IOS XR routers to gain persistent, infrastructure-level access across multiple organizations. T
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Security Operations & DetectionYour insider threat program might still be stuck in 2015. It s focused on employees downloading files at odd hours and contractors overstaying their welcome. Meanwhile, AI agents are gathering credent
Security Operations & DetectionYour security team has deployed WAFs , bot management, identity controls, and device fingerprinting. Yet attackers still slip through. The reason isn t tool failure; it s a fundamental misunderstandin
Security Operations & DetectionRecent leaks from Russian military training programs confirm what many enterprise risk officers suspected: nation-state cyber capabilities now operate as formal institutional systems with structured r
Security Operations & DetectionThe Challenge A global organization with mature security tools found its Incident Response Plan wasn t ready for action. Though the plan was a comprehensive document, reviewed annually, it failed duri
Security Operations & DetectionWhen Fire Ant, a China-linked espionage group, compromised Cisco IOS XR routers in 2026, they didn t just gain access to network traffic. They gained the ability to suppress evidence of their own acti
Security Operations & DetectionThe Challenge of Phishing from Legitimate Sources A recent phishing campaign targeting State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) government networks highlighted a troubling issue: phishing emails w
Security Operations & DetectionWhen Fire Ant compromised Cisco IOS XR routers and TACACS servers in 2026, investigators didn t find the evidence in logs. The logs had been altered. They found it in memory dumps, configuration delta
Security Operations & DetectionWhen PaperCut disclosed zero-day exploitation on August 27, 2026, some organizations patched within hours. Others remained vulnerable weeks later. The difference wasn t budget or tooling; it was proce
Security Operations & DetectionThe Warning A group of 100 technology firms, including OpenAI , Google , Microsoft , and Anthropic, issued an open letter warning that AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and soph
Security Operations & DetectionSecurity leaders often debate whether AI will make their jobs easier or obsolete. The Hugging Face incident suggests we re asking the wrong question. When approximately 1,200 AI agents coordinated an
