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
What You Don’t See Can Hurt You: Why Cybersecurity Change Can’t Wait
Let’s face it—changing the way your business operates is hard. You’ve built systems. Created workflows. Trained your team. And even if you know things could be more secure, the idea of altering how people work, communicate, and handle data feels ...
Would You Trust the New Intern with Your Social Security Number? Rethinking AI Before It’s Too Late
There’s a new intern on your team. They’re sharp. They’re fast. They seem to know a little bit about everything. But they’ve only been here a few days. Would you hand them your client list? Your payroll data? Your CEO’s ...
Before You Cut the Cybersecurity Budget, Ask This One Question
In every business, there are moments when the numbers force hard conversations. Cash flow gets tight. Priorities shift. And the line items that feel intangible or uncertain—like cybersecurity—end up on the chopping block. You may be in one of those ...
Are You Making Your Company Less Secure Without Even Knowing It?
I need to tell you something that most executives don’t want to hear: A lot of the things you’ve been paying for in the name of security – phishing training, security assessments, even penetration tests – might actually be making ...
The Printer in the Closet Is Going to Get You Hacked
Every office has one. That old firewall you “meant to replace.” The dusty printer in the closet still connected to Wi-Fi. The forgotten PC under someone’s desk running an unsupported OS. It doesn’t look dangerous. But I’ve been in this ...
Your Employees Are Feeding AI Company Secrets (And It Will Cost You)
AI tools like ChatGPT are capturing sensitive company data. CEOs and CFOs need to act now before these AI conversations become legal evidence that costs their company millions. You have a problem happening inside your company right now. Your team ...
Not All Cybersecurity Assessments Are Safe—Here’s What You Need to Know
If your business has brought in a third party to assess cybersecurity risks—or is planning to—you’re already ahead of the game. But here’s the catch: not all assessments are created equal. Recent vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-32353 and CVE-2025-32354) exposed a major flaw ...
The Silent IT Risk That Can Wreck Your Company Value: Tribal Knowledge
When CEOs and CFOs think about cybersecurity risk, they think about hackers, ransomware, and data breaches. What they do not think about is the way their own IT teams operate—and how that internal process can make or break the company ...
Critical MSP Vulnerabilities: What to Do Before It’s Too Late
The latest disclosure of credential handling vulnerabilities in Kaseya’s Network Detective is another reminder that even trusted vendor tools can become an attacker’s weapon. This is not a one-off event; it is part of a growing pattern. When tools that ...
How to Become the Risk Advisor Your Clients Can’t Live Without
If you’re an MSP watching your clients push back on security investments or ignore monthly reports, you’re not alone. But the landscape is shifting—and fast. There’s a new and urgent opportunity that’s separating providers who get ignored from those who ...
The Windows 11 Time Bomb Your MSP Forgot to Mention
Let me tell you a story. It starts like most horror stories do—with a false sense of security. I sat down recently with the CEO of a well-run, 250-person company. Smart guy. Good business. Solid MSP. We talked shop: headcount, ...
Disaster-Proofing Your Business: Start with Incident Response
Why You Must Think Like Emergency Planners Imagine it’s 1:00 a.m. The rain’s been steady, but you’re asleep. Somewhere upstream, the ...
