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
Windows Bug Found To Cause Slow Startup
Microsoft recently published an important new support document relating to several Windows versions. The document reads, in part, as follows: "After you configure a Windows-based computer to use large amounts of memory, …
Fake Voicemail Messages Tricking People Into Opening Malicious Content
Office 365 has been the target of an increasing number of ongoing phishing scams. The latest scam involves using fake voicemail messages to convince targets that they need to log in to hear the full …
Racoon Stealer Malware Is New One To Watch For
There is a new form of malware that you and your staff need to be aware of. That's because it's gaining in popularity among cyber criminals around the world. Known as 'Racoon Stealer,' it is …
Popular Web Domain Registrar Hit With Data Breach
Do you have web domains registered with Web.com, Network Solutions or Register.com? If so, at least some of your data may have been compromised. Web.com recently reported that they and their two subsidiaries named above …
Non-Updated Android Phones Vulnerable To NFC Beaming Hacks
Has it been more than a month since you upgraded your Android OS? If so, you should make upgrading a priority. Just over a month ago, Google patched a critical flaw in the Android OS …
