Galactic Research: Articles & Insights
Threat Thursday: June 18th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic's weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday we break down the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting your organization, with each item split into what happened, what it could mean for you, and what to ...
AI Security
OpenClaw's Marketplace Got Stuffed With Malware. Here's Why That Was Always Going to Happen.
What a Malware-Filled AI Agent Marketplace Tells Us About How the Industry Keeps Making the Same Mistake I've spent the better part of my career watching organizations adopt new technology faster than they can secure it, and documenting what happens ...
The Deepfake Was Convincing. So Was My Backpack.
Why Social Engineering Still Works, Why AI is Making it Sharper, and the One Habit that Stops it In early 2024, an employee at Arup, a global engineering firm, joined a video call with several colleagues, including someone who appeared ...
The Invisible Workforce
The Shadow AI Running Inside Your Clients' Environments and How MSPs Can Get Ahead of It It's Monday morning. A client's controller is on the phone. She spent Friday afternoon cleaning up the vendor list inside their accounting platform's new ...
Threat Intelligence
Threat Thursday: June 18th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic's weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday we break down the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting your organization, with each item split into what happened, what it could mean for you, and what to ...
Threat Thursday: June 11th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic's weekly threat intelligence roundup. This week's stories share one theme: the gap between a vulnerability becoming public and a working exploit existing is collapsing toward hours, and the coordinated disclosure process meant to give defenders ...
Threat Thursday: June 4th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic's weekly threat intelligence roundup. This week's stories have a clear pattern: attackers didn't find obscure entry points or novel techniques but instead went after the things you were already using and already trusting. As always, ...
Strategy & Leadership
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 ...
Value That Converts: Why Your vCSO Pitch Keeps Getting Pushed to IT
You walked out of that meeting feeling like a closer. Your credentials were on point. You covered the whole stack: EDR, SIEM, MDR, quarterly risk assessments, tabletop exercises, NIST alignment. Your vCSO offering was solid. You even had a phased ...
Security Education
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, ...
Part 2: Threat Actors Don't Pick You. You Just Happen to Be There.
In Part 1, we established that Handala didn't pick Stryker off a strategic target list and then figure out how to break in. They found access, recognized the value, and used it. That's still a deliberate, damaging attack—it just means ...
All Articles
The Cyber Threat You’re Not Ready For (But Think You Are)
Why Most Incident Response Plans Are Useless—and What That Means for Your Business Imagine your office catches fire. The alarm goes off. Everyone panics. You grab your incident plan from the binder on the wall. You flip to the page ...
What If Your Accountant Was Hacked?
What if I told you the biggest threat to your company’s security wasn’t the teenager in a hoodie halfway across the globe—but your accountant? Yeah, the person who sends you a smiley face after asking for your bank routing number. ...
When the Lawyers Come Knocking: How to Shut Down a Lawsuit Before It Starts
Let’s get one thing straight: When you get breached, you are guilty until proven innocent. That first letter from a law firm? It’s not a heads-up. It’s a warning shot. And how you respond determines whether you end up bleeding ...
Your Employees Are Hoarding Digital Trash—and It’s Going to Cost You Millions
Let’s play a game. When was the last time you took out the trash? No, not metaphorical trash. The real stuff. The kitchen bin—overflowing with last night’s takeout, your kids’ science project leftovers, and something that might have once been ...
Would You Trust the Guy Who Fixes Your Printer to Defend Your Retirement?
We’ve audited 4,627 networks in the last 90 days. What did we find? The same head-scratching, stomach-turning reality again and again: Business owners putting their life’s work—their legacy, their retirement plan—into the hands of someone who just got the printer ...
Your Biggest Risk Just Got Smarter
If you’re not talking to your team about email security right now, you’re walking straight into a breach. Let me say that again: Email is your biggest risk. AI just made it bigger. Here’s the thing—email is the edge. The ...
Are Those Security Policies Useless?
Let me guess—you’ve got security policies. A whole binder full of them, right? Maybe even a fancy PDF with your logo on the cover. You wrote them. You reviewed them. You emailed them to your team. And then? Nothing. Nobody ...
The Criminal in the Mirror: Why Cyber Liability Isn’t Just for the Big Guys
You probably think cybersecurity lawsuits are something that only happens to the big dogs. You know, the MGMs of the world. The Targets. The Equifaxes. You see those names in the headlines, and you think: “Well, good thing I’m not ...
Small Business? Small Target? Think Again.
I was sipping my coffee this morning, watching steam curl out of the mug, when it hit me: lawsuits from cyber breaches are exploding. Like, actual explosion levels of growth. Yesterday, I told a CEO that breach-related litigation has doubled ...
You Trust Your Employees. That Might Be the Problem.
You built your business from the ground up. You poured your blood, sweat, and probably a few tears into finding the right people. You interviewed them. You trained them. You made sure they shared your values. Because that’s what good ...
When the Auditor Becomes the Architect—Run
Your business is hitting all the right numbers. Revenue is strong, operations hum along, and from your seat in the C-suite, things look bulletproof. Then—bam—a cyberattack hits. Systems go dark. Phones stop ringing. Orders grind to a halt. You reach ...
Think Your Email Is Safe? So Did They—Until the Lawsuits Hit
You think one compromised email account can’t cost millions? Time to wake up. It’s Monday morning. Coffee in hand. You walk into the office ready to take on the world—and ta-da. Your IT support team tells you one of your ...
