Galactic Research: Articles & Insights
Threat Thursday: August 20th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic’s weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what it could mean for your ...
AI Security
Part 2: The Security Controls Behind a Safe AI Deployment
From the Map to the Hike: The Four Controls and the Client Conversations Behind Them This is Part 2 in a series that covers your AI enablement plan. Part 1 is here if you want the full map. The Little ...
Ten of Eleven AI Coding Agents Failed a Decades-Old Attack
What GuardFall Tells Us About Where AI Security Controls Need to Live Picture a security guard stationed at the entrance of a building. Their job is to check IDs. They're good at it, fast and consistent, and the building's occupants ...
Perfect AI Guardrails Are Impossible. That's Not an Excuse for Ignoring Them.
What a NIST Mathematician Proved, Why the Internet Got it Wrong, and What Your AI Security Program Should Look Like Years ago, running an MSSP, I had a vendor pitch us a next-gen firewall on a single promise: one hundred ...
Threat Intelligence
Threat Thursday: August 20th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic’s weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what it could mean for your ...
Threat Thursday: August 13th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic’s weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what it could mean for your ...
Threat Thursday: August 6th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic’s weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what it could mean for your ...
Security Education
The Browser Became the Endpoint. Your Security Stack Didn’t Notice.
An employee clicks a box that says “verify you’re human.” A prompt tells them to press a couple of keys, so they do. What they have actually done is paste and run a command that a script slipped onto their clipboard the moment they ...
Vulnerabilities Are Now the #1 Way In. The Window to Fix Them Is Closing.
Most of the time, I didn't break into a network so much as let myself in through something with a fix already out (just not installed yet): the VPN concentrator three versions behind, the firewall with a known vulnerability fixed ...
Your OSINT Reality Check: Here’s What an Attacker Is Finding in 30 Minutes or Less
Today’s connected, AI-driven digital ecosystem has made it easier than ever to build a professional brand, network with peers, and share ideas with a wider audience. It’s opened doors for businesses that simply didn't exist before: new customers, new partnerships, ...
Strategy & Leadership
An Open Letter From Your Cyber Risk Advisors
After the Water Attacks Last month, attackers reached into water treatment plants across a dozen states and started moving the controls. Some of them found out what happens when you do. I've been thinking about what to say to the ...
Building Trust in Executive Relationships: Lessons from King Lear
A Framework for Establishing the Kind of Trust that Survives Budget Season Imagine the curtain going up and a group of players act out the opening scenes of Shakespeare's King Lear, just for you. An aging king sits in his ...
Your Jokes Were Funny. They Still Didn't Renew.
How MSPs Build the Kind of Client Rapport That Survives a Budget Review You walked out of the meeting feeling good. The handshake was firm, the small talk landed, and you even got a laugh with the printer joke. You ...
All Articles
T-Mobile Reports Scam Calls Have Increased 116 Percent Since 2020
If you're like most cellphone users, you absolutely love the automatic call blocking feature that most companies offer as part of their standard service. A call comes in from a "suspicious" number ...
New Remote Access Trojan Virus Hides In Windows Registry
There's a new malware strain you should make sure your IT staff is aware of. Called the Dark Watchman, it is a well-designed and highly capable RAT (Remote Access Trojan) paired with ...
Hackers Are Using Big Brand Surveys To Scam Victims
Surveys have long been a playground of hackers and scammers. That's true at any time of the year but it's especially true around the Holidays when such scams seem to attract even ...
New Ransomware Named AvosLocker Uses Multiple Tricks In Attacks
There's a new strain of ransomware to be concerned about in the form of AvosLocker. This is from security firm Sophos who warns that the new strain of human-operated ransomware is one ...
Are You Planning For A Third-Party Audit?
The magnifying glass is (or will) be pointed at you. As an MSP, you are looked at as the protector of data. As the ...
Update Your All In One SEO Plugin For Security Patch
Do you own and operate a WordPress website? Do you also use the "All in One" SEO plugin? If you answered yes to both of those questions, then be aware that you'll ...
Reasons The Log4j Java Library Security Issue Is Concerning
Haven't heard of Log4j before right now? If not, you're certainly not alone but unfortunately it's something you're likely to hear more about in the weeks ahead. It may wind up being ...
Some Lenovo Laptops Have Admin Level Security Vulnerability
Do you own a Lenovo Yoga or ThinkPad laptop? If so be advised that a pair of critical security flaws have recently been found that could allow an attacker Admin level access ...
This Android Banking Malware Is Back
We haven't heard much about Anubis in recent months. Anubis is the nasty Android-based banking Trojan that has made headlines on more than one occasion. If history is any guide at all ...
Microsoft Teams Gets End To End Encryption
Two months ago, Microsoft began rolling out support for end-to-end encryption for all Teams calls. Given the pandemic and the increased demand for Teams and services like it, that was a very ...
AWS Outage Caused Major Headaches For Businesses
If yours is one of the thousands of businesses that rely on Amazon Web Services (AWS for short) then you're already aware that recently there were issues. Even if your business doesn't ...
Why You Should Consider On-Going Cyber Audits
A cyberattack is never going to be expected. Back when I was running my MSP and my team was recovering ...
