Security outfit Huntress has been forced onto the defensive after its latest research – described by senior staff as "hilarious" – split opinion across the cybersecurity community.

Defenders, for the most part, agreed with the vendor's assessment of the situation, which revolved around an attacker, for whatever reason, installing a trial version of its EDR tool and consequently having their entire activity monitored by the good guys.

One of the best parts was that Huntress's insights showed the attacker even installed a premium Malwarebytes browser extension in an attempt to stay safe online.

It's almost a reverse case of an SEO poisoning attack , as Huntress's logs showed the attacker performed a Google search for "Bitdefender" and downloaded the EDR trial via a sponsored Google link a

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