Galactic Research: Articles & Insights
Threat Thursday: August 13th, 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 it could mean for your ...
AI Security
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 the full map. The Little ...
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 consistent, and the building's occupants ...
Perfect AI Guardrails Are Impossible. That's Not an Excuse for Ignoring Them.
What a NIST Mathematician Proved, Why the Internet Got it Wrong, and What Your AI Security Program Should Look Like Years ago, running an MSSP, I had a vendor pitch us a next-gen firewall on a single promise: one hundred ...
Threat Intelligence
Threat Thursday: August 13th, 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 it could mean for your ...
Threat Thursday: August 6th, 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 it could mean for your ...
Threat Thursday: July 30th, 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 it could mean for your ...
Security Education
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 their clipboard the moment they ...
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, ...
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 ...
All Articles
270,000 Patients Exposed in Louisiana Healthcare Ransomware Attack
This past October, during a ransomware assault on a healthcare facility in southwest Louisiana, hackers collected and exposed the personal information of approximately 270,000 patients and workers. A ransomware organization known as ...
Maximize Your Business Potential with Managed IT Services
Companies of all sizes may benefit from managed IT services since they offer a variety of technical support and maintenance services while also saving time and money. Managed IT services may benefit ...
Jump-Start Your Companies Social Media Presence
Social media marketing is an effective tool used to promote your company online. Many people use social media channels to promote products or services; however, companies can also use social media to ...
Maximizing Success with a Well-Designed Website
Maximizing Success with a Well-Designed Website A poorly designed website can significantly impact a business's bottom line. In today's digital age, having an online presence is crucial for attracting potential leads and ...
The Rising Threat of BEC Attacks: Don’t Let Your Business Fall Victim
Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are becoming widespread and present a significant risk to businesses of all sizes. These attacks involve hackers posing as trusted individuals or organizations via email to request ...
New Phishing Scheme Using Fake Copyright Infringement Notices
A new phishing campaign targeting Facebook users has been identified by cybersecurity firm Trustwave. In this campaign, hackers use fake copyright infringement notices to trick users into giving away their account details. ...
LastPass: What You Need To Do Right Now
Way back in August, LastPass disclosed that hackers compromised their development servers. Through this attack, they siphoned proprietary source code and “technical ...
LastPass Security Breach: Encrypted Passwords at Risk
LastPass, a popular password manager, announced that an unauthorized party accessed the company's archived backups of its production data on a third-party cloud-based storage service. According to the company's investigation, a threat ...
DraftKings Data Breach Exposes Personal Information of 68,000 Customers
In late November 2022, sports betting firm DraftKings announced that it had suffered a data breach affecting approximately 68,000 customers. The company stated that the breach resulted from a credential stuffing attack, in which attackers obtained credentials from a third-party ...
Better Education Using Webinars
For the majority of organizations, traveling to a conference may be time-consuming, expensive, and challenging. Then there's the trip, the time away from the workplace, and the mountain of fires to put ...
Risks of Public Wifi
While public Wi-Fi can be a convenient way to stay connected while traveling, it is important to be aware of its potential security risks. If a hacker intercepts your data while using ...
FBI Program Tasked with Infrastructure Security Compromised
The FBI program tasked with ensuring critical infrastructure security has been compromised by hackers, who now offer access to the program's data on the dark web. The breach was initially disclosed by ...
