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Japan’s space agency suffers cyber attack, points finger at Active Directory

November 29, 2023

Via: The Register

Japan’s Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) has reported a cyber incident. Chief cabinet secretary Matsuno mentioned the incident in his morning briefing, telling reporters the agency suspected a breach, possibly to its Active Directory implementation, so conducted further research and found […]

Cyber warfare, Cyber-crime

4 Countries Join NATO Cyber Defense Center

May 17, 2023

Via: SecurityWeek

The announcement was made on the cybersecurity center’s 15th anniversary. The organization, based in Tallinn, Estonia, now has 39 members, including non-NATO countries — Ukraine, Ireland and Japan are not in NATO. “I am truly grateful that Iceland, Ireland, Japan, […]

Hacker, Threats & Malware

Hackers are implanting multiple backdoors at industrial targets in Japan

March 31, 2021

Via: The Hacker News

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details of a sophisticated campaign that deploys malicious backdoors for the purpose of exfiltrating information from a number of industry sectors located in Japan. Dubbed “A41APT” by Kaspersky researchers, the findings delve into a new […]

Cyber-crime, Malware

Emotet Operators Are Using Wuhan Virus Info to Spread Malware

February 3, 2020

Via: Hot for Security

Emotet operators are looking to pray on people’s fears to spread malware through malicious emails. In this case, they are using the real health crisis of the coronavirus outbreak in China. Using people’s fears to spread malware is not new, […]

Network security

Google mistake is the root cause of Internet Outage in Japan

August 28, 2017

Via: Security Affairs

Google error it the root cause of a widespread Internet outage in Japan that lasted for about an hour on Friday, August 25. The incident was caused by a BGM route hijack that began at 12:22 PM local Japan time […]

Hacker

Cylance exposes ‘Dust Storm’ APT attack on Japanese infrastructure

February 25, 2016

Via: SC Magazine

An advance persistent threat group operating since at least 2010 has recently been concentrating its efforts on infiltrating Japanese critical infrastructure and key commercial interests, according to cyber-security firm Cylance, which went public with its findings yesterday due to the […]

Cyber-crime

Elevating the Discussion on Security Incidents

February 19, 2015

Via: cyber-crime

I am not a fan of the way many media sources cite “statistics” on digital security incidents. I’ve noted before that any “statistic” using the terms “millions” or “billions” to describe “attacks” is probably worthless. This week, two articles on […]

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Japan’s space agency suffers cyber attack, points finger at Active Directory

4 Countries Join NATO Cyber Defense Center

Hackers are implanting multiple backdoors at industrial targets in Japan

Emotet Operators Are Using Wuhan Virus Info to Spread Malware

Google mistake is the root cause of Internet Outage in Japan

Cylance exposes ‘Dust Storm’ APT attack on Japanese infrastructure

Elevating the Discussion on Security Incidents

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Chinese government website security is often worryingly bad, say Chinese researchers

Indonesia sneakily buys spyware, claims Amnesty International

97% of security leaders have increased SaaS security budgets

Tag: Japan

Japan’s space agency suffers cyber attack, points finger at Active Directory

4 Countries Join NATO Cyber Defense Center

Hackers are implanting multiple backdoors at industrial targets in Japan

Emotet Operators Are Using Wuhan Virus Info to Spread Malware

Google mistake is the root cause of Internet Outage in Japan

Cylance exposes ‘Dust Storm’ APT attack on Japanese infrastructure

Elevating the Discussion on Security Incidents

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Chinese government website security is often worryingly bad, say Chinese researchers

Indonesia sneakily buys spyware, claims Amnesty International

97% of security leaders have increased SaaS security budgets