‼️ Huntress' CEO says it's not illegal that an employee of theirs tipped off a threat actor about the FBI looking for them, then closes his blog post with "protecting ALL businesses while wrecking adversaries in the process." How exactly are you wrecking adversaries when you act as their informant by allegedly sending them screenshots that named FBI agents? Their CEO, Kyle Hanslovan, said in an interview today that a current employee told a ransomware actor that law enforcement had reached out asking about that actor. He calls it "poor judgment," says it was not illegal, and rejects the "insider threat" label. The former employee who raised it, Ben Folland, says that admission proves his point. He alleges the employee forwarded FBI communications to the DevMan ransomware group, then refused to cooperate with the FBI. His supporting evidence is not public yet. Threat-intel teams routinely talk to criminals for research, but once a researcher warns a target that law enforcement is circling, an active case can collapse, and that is the line Huntress now has to defend in public. We've reached out to Huntress with questions about the employee who allegedly sent DevMan information, and they pointed us to their CEO's blog post.