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Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025
The past year has seen plenty of hacks and outages. Here are the ones topping the list.
TL;DR
- Supply-chain attacks were prevalent, impacting thousands of organizations by compromising software libraries and packages.
- AI chatbots were vulnerable to memory poisoning and prompt injection, leading to potential malicious actions and data breaches.
- Major cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, and Azure experienced significant outages that disrupted internet services.
- Other notable incidents include the Deepseek iOS app transmitting unencrypted data and vulnerabilities in Apple chips.
- The Signal private messaging app received an overhaul to withstand quantum computer attacks.