Galactic Research: Articles & Insights
Threat Thursday: September 17th, 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 …
AI Security
Four Controls for AI Tools That Can't Defend Themselves
A weather plugin, a stolen conversation, and the case for enforcing security outside the model I recently spent an afternoon on a public challenge range, one of those practice environments security researchers use to test …
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 …
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 …
Threat Intelligence
Threat Thursday: September 17th, 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 …
Threat Thursday: September 10th, 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 …
Threat Thursday: September 3rd, 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 …
Security Education
How Cl0p Breached Shell, GE, and Philips Through One Flaw
A ransomware crew turned mass extortion into an assembly line. The victims found out months later. Ask anybody to picture a ransomware attack and you'll get roughly the same movie. Screens locking up across the …
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 …
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 …
Strategy & Leadership
OpenAI Warned About AI Cyberattacks. Now What?
What the letter says, what came after it, and how to talk about it without turning it into a sales pitch On August 27, OpenAI published an open letter on global cyber defense. More than …
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 …
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 …
All Articles
The End Of Windows 7 Support Is Almost Here
Do you still have a few machines in your company that are running Windows 7? If so, be aware that Microsoft is formally ending Windows 7 support in a matter of weeks. January 14, 2020 …
New Orleans Shuts Down After Ransomware Attack
Things aren't so easy in the Big Easy right now. The city of New Orleans has suffered a ransomware attack. As a result, most of the city's servers and computers are currently down. However, at …
New Ransomware Threatens To Release Stolen Data To Public
The leaders of the ransomware known as Sodinokibi (REvil Ransomware) have announced a nasty new tactic to get their victims to pay up when their files get encrypted. The hackers are now threatening that they'll …
New Icons Coming To Microsoft Windows 10
Windows users aren't big fans of change. Recall the cries of outrage when Microsoft tried in vain to retire MS Paint, which was never a very good graphics program and only a small subcomponent of …
Instagram Adds AI To Warn You About Offensive Comments
Instagram has made a recent change you should be aware of. Any time you make a comment, you may get a popup warning that your comment may be "potentially offensive". That is, if the service's …
Hacked Ring Devices Are Scaring Customers With Voices
On the Dark Web, there's a live webcast show called "NulledCast" that few people have ever heard of. It's pretty popular in Dark Web circles, though. The premise of the show is this: The hosts …
The Amount Of Earth Google Has Mapped So Far
These days, who hasn't made use of Google Maps? It has become an indispensable navigation tool and smart phone navigation. It is powered by Google Maps and could arguably be described as a killer app …
New Zeppelin Ransomware Brings Companies To A Halt
Researchers at BlackBerry Cylance have discovered a new and dangerous strain of ransomware in the wild dubbed "Zeppelin". It has been used to target small numbers of healthcare and technology-related companies in the US, Canada …
Update Amazon Blink Cameras To Fix Security Vulnerabilities
Do you have a home security system that incorporates Amazon's Blink XT2 cameras? If so, be advised that researchers at Tenable Security recently identified several serious security flaws that would allow an attacker to take …
Ransomware Uses New Method To Get Past Antivirus Programs
Researchers at SophosLabs have discovered a new threat to be on the alert for. A variant of the Snatch ransomware has been spotted in the wild. It features an innovative means of getting around whatever …
Windows 10 Mobile OS Complete End of Life Is Here
Are you using a device that's running on Windows 10 Mobile? If so, you don't have a lot of company. Sadly, the OS never really caught on. Microsoft pulled the plug on its development, announcing …
New Gmail Attachment Feature Makes Forwarding Easier
Google has a solid reputation when it comes to making a steady stream of improvements to its large and growing base of products and services. They have a demonstrated a track record when it comes …
