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Japan's Space Exploration Agency 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 illegal access.
US and Japanese law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies warn of the Chinese 'BlackTech' hackers breaching network devices to install custom backdoors for access to corporate networks. The FBI notice warns that the BlackTech hackers use custom, regularly updated malware to backdoor network devices, which are used for persistence, initial access to networks, and to steal data by redirecting traffic to attacker-controlled servers.
Toyota says a recent disruption of operations in Japan-based production plants was caused by its database servers running out of storage space. On August 29th, it was reported that Toyota had to halt operations on 12 of its 14 Japan-based car assembly plants due to an undefined system malfunction.
Malfunction took 14 plants offline for 36 hours. Oh, what a … nah, too obvious Toyota Japan has recovered from what it's described as a "malfunction in the production order system" that halted...
Japan's digital minister has doubled down on a June promise to penalize himself for the poor rollout of the country's digital ID, My Number Card, by offering up three months salary on Tuesday. The interim report reportedly revealed a lack of knowledge among the public on how to link their My Number Card to disability records, cases of health insurance being connected to the wrong card, and errors in pension records of public servants.
The NSA discovered the intrusion in 2020-we don't know how-and alerted the Japanese. The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on-plans, capabilities, assessments of military shortcomings, according to three former senior U.S. officials, who were among a dozen current and former U.S. and Japanese officials interviewed, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter's sensitivity.
The port of Nagoya - which shifted 2.68 million shipping containers and 164 million tons of cargo in 2022 - has moved precious few in the last 24 hours after finding itself the latest victim of Russia's notorious LockBit ransomware gang. Japanese media have reported substantial disruptions at the port and named LockBit as the culprit.
The Port of Nagoya, the largest and busiest port in Japan, has been targeted in a ransomware attack that currently impacts the operation of container terminals.Today, the administrative authority of the Port of Nagoya has issued a notice about a malfunction in the "Nagoya Port Unified Terminal System" - the central system controlling all container terminals in the port.
Asia In Brief Japan's government last Friday rebuked Fujitsu for shabby cloud security. Fujitsu operates a cloud called "FENICS" and in February 2023 admitted that in December 2022 it had detected network misconfigurations that allowed unauthorized remote access to the service.
Fujitsu Japan is in the spotlight again for all the wrong reasons, after fumbling its attempt to fix the nation's troubled ID card scheme. One use of the cards is to arrange for administrative documents to be printed at convenience stores or government offices.