Information Security Expert Mustafa Yılmaz: “2025 cyber attacks directly threatened economic stability and national security”

Information Security Specialist Mustafa Yılmazshared the analysis of global cyber attacks experienced in 2025.

Supply Chain Crisis in the UK Retail Industry
Nisan 2025’te Marks & Spencer, Co-op ve Harrods’a yönelik düzenlenen fidye yazılımı saldırıları, yılın en çok ses getiren olayları arasında yer aldı. Scattered Spider bağlantılı saldırganların üçüncü taraf bir hizmet sağlayıcısını hedef aldığına dikkat çeken Yılmaz, “Tek bir tedarikçi zafiyeti, tüm sektörü domino etkisiyle felç edebiliyor.” dedi. Marks & Spencer’ın vergi öncesi kârının altı ayda From £391.9 million to £3.4 million düştüğü hatırlatıldı.

Production at Jaguar Land Rover Stopped for Five Weeks
It was stated that the attack on Jaguar Land Rover in August 2025 was recorded as the costliest cyber incident in British history.

The Cost of Digital Dependency in Aviation
An attack on Collins Aerospace's vMUSE systems in March 2025 caused serious disruptions at more than 20 airports across Europe.

Municipal Systems Collapsed in the USA
In July 2025, St.

The First Autonomous Cyber ​​Attack Supported by Artificial Intelligence
Referring to the report published by Anthropic in November 2025, Yılmaz said, "The first large-scale cyber attack carried out by artificial intelligence with its own decisions, without human intervention, has been documented."

Yılmaz summarized the common message of the attacks in 2025 with the following words: "Third party risks, cloud integrations, operational technology security and identity management are now at the center of cyber defense."

Kaynak: Beykozun Sesi