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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.
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Global financial institutions are panicked over Anthropic's new superhacker AI model. Cyber experts aren't quite as worried.
The deal aims to accelerate AI adoption, train workers, and develop cybersecurity partnerships — the latest move by a hyperscaler to compete for sovereign AI and data centers.
A Chinese keyboard warrior inadvertently leaked information about politically motivated influence operations through a ChatGPT account.
New China-aligned APT group is deploying Group Policy to sniff through government networks across Southeast Asia and Japan.
A critical security issue in a popular endpoint manager (CVE-2025-61932) allowed Chinese state-sponsored attackers to backdoor Japanese businesses.
A ransomware last week left the Asahi brewery in Japan struggling to take orders and deliver its products domestically, as manufacturers become a favored target.
With the continued success of North Korea's IT worker scams, Asia-Pacific nations are working with private firms to blunt the scheme's effectiveness.
Chinese threat actors have been feeding off the same Ivanti RCE vulnerabilities we've known about since last year, partly thanks to complications in patching.
Japan is being peppered with an overwhelming volume of spam, thanks to a new platform popular across the East China Sea.
Attackers are using credentials stolen via phishing websites that purport to be legitimate securities company homepages, duping victims and selling their stocks before they realize they've been hacked.
The bill will allow Japan to implement safeguards and strategies that have been in use by other countries for some time.
A ransomware activity wave using the SocGholish MaaS framework for initial access also has affected banking and consulting firms in the US, Taiwan, and Japan since the beginning of the year.
Fraudulent IT workers are looking for engineering and developer positions in the US and Japan, and this time it's not about espionage.
Japan is on a mission to catch up to the US standard of national cyber preparedness, and its new legislation is a measure intended to stop escalating Chinese cyber-espionage efforts, experts say.
Since 2019, MirrorFace has been stealing information from myriad Japanese organizations to gain leverage over Japan in the event of hostilities between the two countries, experts said.
Russia-linked hackers have taken aim at Japan, following its ramping up of military exercises with regional allies and the increase of its defense budget.
The APT group uses spear-phishing and a vulnerability in a geospatial data-sharing server to compromise organizations in Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea.
Following the Volt Typhoon attacks on critical infrastructure in the region by China, the US reportedly will share cybersecurity threat information with both countries.
Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Palau participate in the cybersecurity exercise held in Guam.
Open-source software ecosystem compromise leaves developers in Asia and around the globe at risk.