Catch the crew long before encryption
Access brokers, loaders and recon tools trip your decoys in the earliest stage of an intrusion, long before ransomware detonates. huntback turns that first probe into a warning.
Left of boom
Ransomware operations start with access: exposed services, stolen credentials, commodity loaders. Those are exactly what a decoy attracts, so you get a signal at the reconnaissance stage, not after files are encrypted.
The same decoys capture the stage-2 loader URL, so huntback can fetch and fingerprint the dropper and scan the host serving it. That gives you indicators to block across your real estate while the operator is still choosing targets.
- Loader and access-broker activity surfaced
- Stage-2 dropper URLs captured
- Attacker infrastructure mapped
- Feeds your code and surface fixes
login attempt 195.x.x.x (known broker)
stage-2 cobalt-beacon pulled + harvested
How we deliver it
Loader capture
The dropper and its infrastructure, harvested.
Counter-recon
Scan the broker's infrastructure back.
Cross-referenced
Tied to CVE and code findings in your stack.
Questions about ransomware early warning
How does deception give early ransomware warning?
Ransomware crews start by gaining access through exposed services, stolen credentials and commodity loaders. Decoys attract exactly that activity, so you see the operator at the reconnaissance stage instead of after encryption.
Does huntback stop the ransomware itself?
huntback is an early-warning and intelligence layer. It gives you the indicators, loader URLs and attacker infrastructure to block and hunt across your real environment before the intrusion progresses.
Which signals matter most?
Access-broker probing of your product types, loader download attempts, and repeated sessions from the same infrastructure across several decoys.