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Entities using the name and iconography of Anonymous claim to have conducted cyberprotests against the Japanese government for actions related to the release of wastewater from the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant. In an operation dubbed "Tango Down", The Anonymous Italia Collective claims to have attacked 21 government and other websites associated with the decision to release wastewater from the Fukushima facility, which in 2011 infamously experienced damage to three reactor cores after an earthquake and tsunami disabled safety systems.
An unknown cryptocurrency exchange located in Japan was the target of a new attack earlier this month to deploy an Apple macOS backdoor called JokerSpy. Elastic Security Labs, which is monitoring the intrusion set under the name REF9134, said the attack led to the installation of Swiftbelt, a Swift-based enumeration tool inspired by an open-source utility called SeatBelt.
Japanese pharma giant Eisai today confirmed to The Register that "There is no imminent risk of stock shortage" after it was hit by ransomware at the weekend. Its Japanese parent group confirmed earlier this week it had taken offline "Certain systems" both inside and outside of Japan, including "Logistics systems" after some of its servers were encrypted by ransomware.
Pharmaceutical company Eisai has disclosed it suffered a ransomware incident that impacted its operations, admitting that attackers encrypted some of its servers. Eisai is a Tokyo-based pharmaceutical company with an annual revenue of $5.3 billion and over 10,000 employees.
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A Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat actor codenamed MirrorFace has been attributed to a spear-phishing campaign targeting Japanese political establishments. The activity, dubbed Operation LiberalFace by ESET, specifically focused on members of an unnamed political party in the nation with the goal of delivering an implant called LODEINFO and a hitherto unseen credential stealer named MirrorStealer.
A hacking group tracked as MirrorFace has been targeting Japanese politicians for weeks before the House of Councilors election in July 2022, using a previously undocumented credentials stealer named 'MirrorStealer. The hackers deployed the new information-stealing malware along with the group's signature backdoor, LODEINFO, which communicated with a C2 server known to belong to APT10 infrastructure.
Japanese industrial giants NTT Communications Corporation and Denso Corporation have decided to start a business "To respond to the threat of increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks against vehicles." The two companies have collaborated on vehicle security for a few years now, with NTT Communications bringing its consulting expertise around technologies such as networking, cloud computing, and managed infosec services such as building security operations centres for clients.
The president of casual Japanese chain restaurant Kappa Sushi resigned yesterday in the wake of a data-theft scandal that has rocked the world of sushi trains. Before he became boss of Kappa Sushi, Tanabe led rival discount sushi establishment Hama Sushi - which has accused Tanabe of stealing trade secrets by accessing data caches that reveal how it slices the price of nigiri to just 75 cents.
A Japanese contractor working in the city of Amagasaki, near Osaka, reportedly mislaid a USB drive containing personal data on the metropolis's 460,000 residents. It's unknown how good of a time the man had, but he did reportedly end up passing out in the street, Japanese news source NHK reported the company who employed him as saying, elaborating on an incident report from the Amagasaki city government.