Stranger Things Meets Cybersecurity: Lessons from the Hive Mind

**Executive summary:** Using 'Stranger Things' metaphors, the commentary highlights modern cyber risks—botnets exploiting default credentials, APTs like Salt Typhoon targeting unpatched networking devices, lateral movement through exposed control systems, and the emergence of AI-enabled autonomous attacks—and recommends unified visibility, telemetry-driven detection, and agentic workflows to prioritize and automate remediation.