That's not very convincing. They still abused trust placed in them - by an active attacker, granted, but still... This seems like a legally risky move and it doesn't inspire trust in Huntress.
Who's trust? Their job is to hunt down and research threat actors. The information gained from this is used to better protect their enterprise customers.
This gains more trust with their customers and breaking trust with ... threat actors?
Threat intelligence is a thing.in fact there’s entire companies that sell just that. In fact, there’s entire government organizations that do just that.
Sure but that's not what their customer was engaging with them to do. It's not ethical to sell "EDR" services and then use that access to spy on your customers for intelligence purposes.
This gains more trust with their customers and breaking trust with ... threat actors?