{"id":172136,"date":"2026-01-04T02:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/supply-chains-ai-and-the-cloud-the-biggest-failures-and-one-success-of-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:04:54","slug":"supply-chains-ai-and-the-cloud-the-biggest-failures-and-one-success-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/supply-chains-ai-and-the-cloud-the-biggest-failures-and-one-success-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a roundup<\/a> of the top stories of 2024, Ars included a supply-chain attack that came dangerously close to inflicting a catastrophe for thousands\u2014possibly millions\u2014of organizations, which included a large assortment of Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Supply-chain attacks played prominently again this year, as a seemingly unending rash of them hit organizations large and small.<\/p>\n

For threat actors, supply-chain attacks are the gift that keeps on giving\u2014or, if you will, the hack that keeps on hacking. By compromising a single target with a large number of downstream users\u2014say a cloud service or maintainers or developers of widely used open source or proprietary software\u2014attackers can infect potentially millions of the target\u2019s downstream users. That\u2019s exactly what threat actors did in 2025.<\/p>\n

Poisoning the well<\/h2>\n

One such event<\/a> occurred in December 2024, making it worthy of a ranking for 2025. The hackers behind the campaign pocketed as much as $155,000 from thousands of smart-contract parties on the Solana blockchain.<\/p>\n

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In a roundup of the top stories of 2024, Ars included a supply-chain attack that came dangerously close to inflicting a catastrophe for thousands\u2014possibly millions\u2014of organizations, which included a large assortment of Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Supply-chain attacks played prominently again this year, as a seemingly unending rash of them hit organizations large and small. 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