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When A Hacker Accidentally Installs Your Edr

See the full blog on how it all went down: https://www.huntress.com/blog/rare-look-inside-attacker-operation?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cy26-10-camp-brand-global-broad-all-x-x-d_speed-black_hat_talk&hnt=kjjyirxk6thb

Recorded live at Black Hat USA 2026, Huntress Senior Director of Adversary Tactics Jamie Levy walks through what happened when a threat actor accidentally installed a Huntress EDR trial on their own machine, and what the SOC found when they investigated.

0:00 - How the attacker found Huntress
0:49 - Huntress catches the alerts and investigates
3:27 - What was on the attacker's machine
4:28 - This happens more often than you'd think
8:09 - Microsoft confirms the same attacker
9:40 - The internet backlash and privacy debate
15:31 - What Huntress got wrong and learned

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