(Podcast) 2025: The Year the Internet Broke!

🎧 *2025: The Year the Internet Broke!* 🎧

Welcome to this episode where we break down the *absolute chaos of 2025’s biggest cyber-attacks!* From teenage hacker collectives to state-sponsored heists, the digital landscape was a total rollercoaster. We’re diving into the top ten incidents that redefined **data loss, recovery costs, and global security**.

*In this episode, we’re covering:*

🚗 *The £1.9 Billion Car Crash:* How *Jaguar Land Rover* faced the UK’s costliest cyber event ever, causing a massive ripple effect across 5,000 organizations.
💰 *The Record-Shattering Heist:* The **Bybit breach**, now known as the **largest crypto theft in history**, where the Lazarus Group walked away with $1.447 billion in Ethereum.
🍺 *The Peroni Problem:* Why *Asahi* had to shut down operations and might not fully recover until 2026 after a Qilin ransomware hit.
🛍️ *Retail Wars:* The "unsophisticated" but effective wave of attacks by *Scattered Spider* (including actual teenagers!) that rocked *Marks & Spencer* and the **Co-op**.
☁️ *The Salesforce Domino Effect:* How one compromised third-party app leaked data from tech giants like **Google, Cloudflare, and Palo Alto Networks**.
🎮 *Coinbase’s Bold Move:* Instead of paying a $20m ransom, they turned it into a *$20m bounty hunt* to catch the rogue agents who facilitated a $400m hack.

We also explore the *ToolShell exploit* targeting government SharePoint servers and why *PowerSchool* made the difficult choice to pay a ransom to protect student data. Whether it's *Zero-Day vulnerabilities* in Oracle or airline drama at **Qantas**, 2025 proved that even the biggest brands have digital Achilles' heels.

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*Source Attribution:* Information and analysis provided by Kevin Poireault of Infosecurity Magazine in the feature "Top 10 Cyber-Attacks of 2025."

*Think of cybersecurity in 2025 like a high-tech fortress where the guards were watching the front gate, but the hackers simply walked through the "supply chain" side door because someone forgot to change the lock on a third-party app.*