The first month of 2025 was another whirlwind month in cybersecurity, with cyber-landscape shifts, new data breaches, and other key stories and developments you shouldn't miss. In this edition of the monthly roundup, ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe looks at:
- the furor over an AI model from a little-known Chinese company called DeepSeek that, to almost everyone's surprise, rivals the performance of leading U.S.-made AI models like ChatGPT – apparently at a fraction of the cost while using fewer and less advanced chips,
- cybercriminals wasting no time in attacking DeepSeek, ultimately causing the company to pause new user sign-ups,
- what DeepSeek's ascent may mean for AI and cybersecurity at large,
- a string of changes to cybersecurity bodies as introduced by the new US administration,
- a data breach at edtech giant PowerSchool that affected more than 62 million students and 9.5 million teachers.
Make sure to also watch the December 2024 edition of the monthly roundup.
