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
Defending Against AI-Driven Phishing: Business Protection Strategies
Business leaders have an alarming new security risk to address: AI-driven phishing threats. Surveys reveal that over half of business leaders have been targets of email phishing attempts in the last two years. These attacks are an urgent concern because ...
NVIDIA Launches Omniverse Digital Twin Software
Simulations and modeling are critical elements of the aerospace, energy, and manufacturing design process. Traditionally, they add weeks or months to a project timeline. Still, with the release of the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint digital twin software, designers may be able ...
WARNING: Cyber Lawsuits Ahead - Protect Your Business from Ambulance Chasers
Data breaches are devastating, and they’re happening more often. Confidential client or customer information is leaked, trust is broken, and the damage ripples across your organization. But the worst part? The lawsuits that follow. In today’s world, organizations like yours ...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents Transform Workflows
2025 will bring some exciting developments for businesses that rely on Microsoft 365 to manage day-to-day workflows more efficiently. As part of its Ignite 2024 announcement, Microsoft unveiled several AI agents for workflows that work alongside existing tools to address ...
Microsoft Teams Boosts Productivity With Faster Translations
Microsoft Teams allows teams to connect from around the world, and with the latest update to multilingual meeting features, it’s about to become even better. Thanks to changes and upgrades to Microsoft Teams translations, videoconferencing software users will soon be ...
Can Your Organization Survive the Year of Accountability?
Hopes. Dreams. Plans. These are the buzzwords we hear every January. But in 2025, there’s a new word demanding your attention and the life of your organization depends on you taking it seriously. What is that word? Accountability. The cybersecurity ...
Maximizing ROI: Unlocking AI’s Full Potential
As companies worldwide invest billions into artificial intelligence solutions, one big question remains: Is it all worth it? While this technology can improve productivity and efficiency, unlocking AI’s full potential requires your business to master objectivity. It’s easy to assume ...
Will your organization win the Cyber War?
A new report issued by the World Economic Forum (WEF) is clear: organizations with fewer than 100 employees are losing ground in the fight against cyber threats. The report, Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025, warns that as geopolitical tensions and technological ...
Why Most AI Startups Are Doomed to Fail
The recent surge of tech startups focused on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions has analysts raising the alarm about the potential for mass startup failures. However, many of these new businesses don't recognize the pitfalls of AI development. Their rush to ...
Google Predicts Top Cybersecurity Threats for 2025
Staying on top of cybersecurity threats as a business owner is no walk in the park. These strides demand the right antivirus programs, firewalls, and security teams, to name a few. However, because online attacks are always evolving, your business ...
Protecting Our Children: What the PowerSchool Data Breach Means for You
In December 2024, hackers breached PowerSchool, a trusted provider of cloud-based software for K-12 schools, exposing deeply personal information about millions of children, parents, and educators. Among the data stolen were Social Security numbers, grades, medical records, and contact details, ...
Google Scam Advisory Issued to Protect Users
Companies like yours like to stay ahead of the competition, which may include keeping your most successful strategies out of sight of other business owners. Many advertising agencies implement these types of cloaking strategies, hoping to keep others from noticing ...
