Coverage of cybersecurity incidents, policy, privacy, public-service disruptions, advisories, and regional developments involving Japan.
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Japan covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to Japan, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
For practitioners, the tag provides geographic context for developments involving Japan's organizations, services, partners, and users. Individual articles provide the specific technologies, threats, sectors, and operational implications relevant to each development.
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Japan's largest taxi operator, Nihon Kotsu, announced that its systems were compromised in a cyberattack, forcing the company to shut down part of its infrastructure. [...]
American insurance giant Aflac has disclosed a new data breach after attackers breached its Japan subsidiary's systems and stole personal and bank account information of 4.38 million customers. [...]
The Washington Hotel brand in Japan has announced that that its servers were compromised in a ransomware attack, exposing various business data. [...]
Asahi Group Holdings, Japan's largest beer producer, has finished the investigation into the September cyberattack and found that the incident has impacted up to 1.9 million individuals. [...]
Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd (Asahi), the brewer of Japan's top-selling beer, has disclosed a cyberattack that disrupted several of its operations. [...]
Nissan Japan has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it suffered a data breach following unauthorized access to a server of one of its subsidiaries, Creative Box Inc. (CBI). [...]
An Active! Mail zero-day remote code execution vulnerability is actively exploited in attacks on large organizations in Japan. [...]
Security researchers have discovered an arbitrary account takeover flaw in Subaru's Starlink service that could let attackers track, control, and hijack vehicles in the United States, Canada, and Japan using just a license plate. [...]
North Korean state-backed hacking groups have stolen over $659 million worth of cryptocurrency in multiple crypto-heists, according to a joint statement issued by the United States, South Korea, and Japan on Tuesday. [...]
The National Police Agency (NPA) and the Cabinet Cyber Security Center in Japan have linked a cyber-espionage campaign targeting the country to the Chinese state-backed "MirrorFace" hacking group. [...]
Japan's CERT is warning that hackers are exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in I-O Data router devices to modify device settings, execute commands, or even turn off the firewall. [...]
Japan's Computer Emergency Response Center (JPCERT/CC) has shared tips on detecting different ransomware gang's attacks based on entries in Windows Event Logs, providing timely detection of ongoing attacks before they spread too far into a network. [...]
X has always had a bot problem, but now scammers are utilizing the Ukraine war and earthquake warnings in Japan to entice users into clicking on fake content warnings and videos that lead to scam adult sites, malicious browser extensions, and shady affiliate sites. [...]
A threat actor has been using a content delivery network cache to store information-stealing malware in an ongoing campaign targeting systems U.S., the U.K., Germany, and Japan. [...]
Japan's Computer Security Incident Response Team (JPCERT/CC) is warning that the notorious North Korean hacking group Lazarus has uploaded four malicious PyPI packages to infect developers with malware. [...]
A new malware campaign that emerged in March 2023 used JavaScript web injections to try to steal the banking data of over 50,000 users of 40 banks in North America, South America, Europe, and Japan. [...]
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was hacked in a cyberattack over the summer, potentially compromising sensitive space-related technology and data. [...]
A joint cybersecurity advisory by the FBI, NSA, CISA, and the Japanese NISC (cybersecurity) and NPA (police) sheds light on the techniques the Chinese threat actors known as BlackTech use to attack Japanese and U.S. organizations. [...]
Toyota says a recent disruption of operations in Japan-based production plants was caused by its database servers running out of storage space. [...]
Japan's computer emergency response team (JPCERT) is sharing a new 'MalDoc in PDF' attack detected in July 2023 that bypasses detection by embedding malicious Word files into PDFs. [...]