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Hackers are using global fears about the spread of the virus to target people in Japan with the Emotet trojan, a popular strain of malware that has been devastatingly effective at attacking governments and financial institutions. Threat researchers with Kaspersky identified other attempts to spread Emotet using the coronavirus scare as a way to get people to open emails or files and share them.
Endace, a world leader in high-speed network recording, playback and analytics hosting, announced that Cornet Solutions has been appointed as a key reseller in Japan. Since 1998, Cornet Solutions...
Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange said Friday it had halted all services after losing cryptocurrency worth more than $32 million in the latest apparent hack involving virtual money. read more
Personal information belonging to millions of Toyota customers in Japan may have been compromised as a result of a breach suffered by a Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) sales subsidiary and its...
A new variant of the Ursnif trojan has been discovered targeting Japan since the beginning of 2019. Japan is a common target for Ursnif, but the latest version, delivered by Bebloh, goes to...
Fraudsters Received 20 Percent Cashback for Fraudulent PurchasesA convergence of events in December in Japan led to an unprecedented spike in card-not-present fraud. New statistics from a dark web...
Japan will carry out a “survey” of 200 million deployed IoT devices, with white-hats trying to log into internet-discoverable devices using default credentials.
Nation to Allow Researchers to Brute-Force 200 Million DevicesJapan plans to identity vulnerable internet of things devices the same way hackers do: by trying to log into them. The country wants...
Japan is preparing a national sweep of some 200 million network-connected gadgets for cyber-security lapses ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, an official said on Tuesday. read more
The European Union and Japan on Wednesday launched the "world's largest areas of safe data flows" after finalizing common rules to protect personal information, the EU said. Firms can transfer...