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I usually find year-end top stories round-ups to be insipid and mediocre at best, but this one by @… is first-rate.
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The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2025
2025 was a big year for cybersecurity, with cyberattacks, data breaches, threat groups reaching new notoriety levels, and, of course, zero-day flaws exploited in breaches. Some stories, though, were more impactful or popular with our readers than others. This article explores 15 of the biggest cybersecurity stories of 2025.

Source: the London Stock Exchange cancels hundreds of FT corporate subscriptions in response to the paper's retreat from London markets coverage in recent years (Simon Hunt/City A.M.)
https://www.cityam.com/lseg-axes-financial-times-subscription…

LSEG axes Financial Times subscriptions amid FTSE coverage retreat
The frequency of the Financial Times' coverage of large cap FTSE businesses has fallen by as much as 70 per cent.

NBC Sports set to host Super Bowl LX pregame coverage from Alcatraz Island https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7016788/2026/02/02/nbc-sports-set-to-host-super-bowl-lx-pregame-coverage-from-alcatraz-island/

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Cypress Hill:
🎵 How I Could Just Kill a Man
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https://thefoundation007.bandcamp.com/track/cypress-hill-how-i-could-just-kill-a-man-xian-juan-bootleg
https://open.spotify.com/track/6l4wMAXzI8RxIysQMYZY0w

Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open-source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/malicious-llm-tools-cybercrime-wormgpt-kawaiigpt/

Cybersecurity Act: Netzbetreiber kritisieren Huawei-Bann scharf
Branchenverbände sparen nicht mit Kritik an dem Entwurf des EU Cybersecurity Acts. Sie warnen vor Konsequenzen für die Digitalisierung und hohen Kosten.

Chiphersteller Nexperia: Offener Brief an China ohne Antwort
Der Chiphersteller Nexperia fordert in einem offenen Brief die chinesische Seite auf, die normale Produktion wiederherzustellen. Bislang ohne Antwort.

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush,
This week's selection covers
--Scam compound captive risks it all to expose its inner workings,
--AI is a core source of geopolitical power and security,
--Regulators should jettison checkbox cyber compliance with innovations,
--AI-led cybersecurity superintelligence i…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 1/24/26
Scam compound captive risks it all to expose its inner workings, AI is a core source of geopolitical power and security, Regulators should jettison checkbox cyber compliance with innovations, AI-led cybersecurity superintelligence is coming, AI's dual-use capabilities are transforming cybersecurity

The US Supreme Court hears arguments in a copyright case between ISP Cox Communications and record labels; labels say Cox should be liable for user infringement (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u