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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, ...
Communicating Risk
The Silent Killer in Your MSP: Ambiguity
You think you’re being clear. You told the client they needed MFA. You recommended better backups. You flagged that firewall. But when things go sideways—when data’s lost, insurance denies the claim, or the lawyers come knocking—they don’t remember your recommendations. ...
The #1 Role Every MSP Must Embrace Before a Competitor Replaces You
Your Clients Don’t Need Another IT Vendor. They Need a Cybersecurity Leader. If you’re still selling managed services like it’s 2015, you’re already losing. The MSP market has shifted. The stakes are higher. Clients aren’t asking how many tickets you ...
Your Marketing Sounds Like It Was Written by a Robot—Because It Was
Let’s be honest. You’re slammed with tickets, chasing down weird user issues, and trying not to lose your mind over Janet’s printer—again. So when someone suggests using AI to handle your marketing, it sounds like a miracle. Here’s the problem: ...
Dark Web Monitoring & Threat Intelligence
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 ...
Human Layer Security
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 ...
New State Cyber Rules Are Coming—Will You Be Ready, or Be the One They Blame?
California. New York. Massachusetts. One by one, states are turning up the heat on cybersecurity regulations—and if you're not preparing your clients for what’s coming, you're not just behind. You're exposed. Last week I blogged about upcoming California rules requiring ...
16 Billion Reasons to Change Your Password—Now
You ever wake up and feel like the bad guys are winning? I do. Today especially. Because if you thought May’s headline—184 million stolen credentials splashed across the dark web—was terrifying, you’d better sit down for this one. The latest ...
More Articles
Your Security Program Is Broken—And You Don’t Even Know It
You get your quarterly assessment back, and there they are—those ugly red marks. Things you thought were handled? Still wide open. Vulnerabilities you swore were fixed? Back again. Issues you know your team patched? Sitting there like a neon sign ...
Your Incident Response Plan Is Almost Useless Without This
When I was deep in the trenches of incident response, there was one absolute rule: Only share what you know. Every hour, we’d do a prep call with the team to get on the same page. Then, we’d jump onto ...
The One MSP Mistake That Guarantees a Total Ransomware Meltdown
There’s dumb. There’s reckless. And then there’s using the same local admin password on every machine in your network. I don’t say this lightly, but if you’re still doing this, you are guaranteeing a full-blown ransomware meltdown the moment a ...
The $2.7TB Printer Driver Disaster—And Why Your MSP Might Be Next
It started with a printer. Like most IT horror stories, it wasn’t a big deal—just a new help desk tech trying to do their job. Printer wasn’t working, user was frustrated, and the tech just needed to find a driver ...
Your Browser Extensions Are Spying on You—And Your Clients Have No Clue
There’s an old saying: If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. Nowhere is that truer than in your browser. Everyone loves a good extension. Password managers, ad blockers, productivity boosters—some of you have 50 installed, turning ...
Reinventing the Wheel—and Watching It Catch Fire
In the 1800s, a guy named John Gorrie had a brilliant idea: he was going to revolutionize refrigeration. Instead of using the common vapor-compression method that actually worked, he decided to build a machine that created ice using compressed air. ...
Would You Skip a Blood Test? Then Why Are You Ignoring This?
You wouldn’t skip your annual physical. You wouldn’t ignore your dentist until your teeth started falling out. And if your doctor said you needed a colonoscopy, you might put it off… but you’d still get it done. Because deep down, ...
Are You Manipulating Your Clients? Or Just Telling Them the Truth?
Let’s get something straight—selling isn’t manipulation. But if you’re an MSP who’s ever felt weird about pushing security, you’ve probably asked yourself: Am I just trying to scare them into buying something? Am I being pushy? Do they really need ...
Your Clients Don’t Care About Compliance—They Care About Not Getting Sued
Let’s cut to the chase. Your clients don’t give a damn about compliance. If they could, they’d do the absolute bare minimum—send an intern to a three-hour training, slap together some policies from Google, and call it a day. And ...
Compliance as a Service Is Sinking—Are You Going Down With It?
For years, MSPs have been selling Compliance as a Service (CaaS) as a golden opportunity. Regulations were tightening. Clients were scared. And compliance frameworks seemed like the perfect way to get businesses to take security seriously. But here’s the reality: ...
Karen’s Compliance Plan Will Get Your Client Sued—Here’s How to Protect Yourself
You sit down with your favorite client—an accounting firm with 30 employees. They’re sharp, professional, and they get it. You walk them through why Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS) isn’t optional anymore. You show them the IRS requirements, the FTC Safeguards, and the ...
Are You Manipulating Your Prospects… or Saving Their Business?
You sit down with a prospect and walk them through the results of their third-party security assessment. Your team didn’t perform it—an independent security firm did. A fresh set of eyes. No bias. Just the cold, hard facts. And the ...
