Commentary / Japan | API Geoeconomic Briefing Aug 29, 2021
Japan has no time to waste in boosting its cyberdefenses
by Ken Jimbo
The country should look to the U.S. for an example of how to deal with cyberattacks and threats in an effective way.
Business Aug 6, 2018
IPhone chipmaker TSMC races to recover from computer virus, warning of shipment delays
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which makes chips for the iPhone and other devices, has revealed details of its recovery from a debilitating computer virus, and warned of delayed shipments and reduced revenue because of the impact on its factories. TSMC said that 80 percent of ...
Business Jan 31, 2018
Coincheck hackers believed trying to move stolen cryptocurrency into exchanges
XEM cryptocurrency’s creator traces the ¥58 billion in stolen coins to an unidentified account, with its owner trying to move the coins to exchanges where they can be sold.
National Jan 27, 2018
Coincheck hacked in ¥58 billion cryptocurrency heist, four years after Mt. Gox
by Kazuaki Nagata
Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange discloses it had lost about ¥58 billion ($532 million) worth of its holdings, sending clients into a panic.
National / Crime & Legal Sep 7, 2017
The number of reported cybercrimes rose to a record in the first half of 2017, the National Police Agency said Thursday, warning of a new scam in which virtual currency accounts are hacked for illicit money transfers. The police say they received 69,977 reports in ...
National Mar 12, 2017
Computer ransomware that locks out users flourishes in pay-to-make-it-go-away Japan
by Ichiro Kitamoto
Companies and individuals in Japan are finding their computers are increasingly targeted by ransomware — programs that bar victims from accessing important files unless they pay money. "Attacks on Japanese businesses have been particularly large in number," said Masakatsu Morii, a professor of information and ...
National / Media | MEDIA MIX Jun 18, 2016
Japan sleeps while cybercriminals get smarter
by Philip Brasor
During a recent trip to the United States, I was in a car with a friend when she received a phone call from her bank, which asked if she had used her debit card that day to make purchases at a certain store. She ...
World / Crime & Legal Apr 6, 2016
Trail in cyber heist suggests hackers were Chinese: Philippine senator
A Philippine senator said on Wednesday that Chinese hackers were likely to have pulled off one of the world's biggest cyber heists at the Bangladesh central bank, citing the network of Chinese people involved in the routing of the stolen funds through Manila. Unidentified hackers ...
National / Crime & Legal Dec 22, 2015
Sanrio database leak seen covering info on 3.3 million Hello Kitty fans
A database for Sanrio, the Japanese owner of the Hello Kitty brand, was breached, putting the data of 3.3 million of its users at risk, according to security website CSOonline.com's report. The leaked data include information such as users' full names, email addresses and encrypted ...
World Feb 26, 2015
Europol disrupts cybercrime ring that infected millions of PCs
A cybercrime operation that stole banking information by hacking more than 3 million computers in Indonesia, India and other countries has been disrupted by European police with assistance from three technology companies, officials said on Wednesday. The European Cybercrime Centre at Europol, the European police ...
National / Crime & Legal Sep 18, 2014
Kumamoto teen charged for allegedly bringing down Tokyo game server
In a legal first, Tokyo police on Thursday filed charges against a Kumamoto teen who allegedly disabled a game company's server by using distributed denial-of-service attacks. The first-year high school student from the city admitted bringing down the server of Tokyo-based GameOn Co. on March ...
National / Crime & Legal Sep 11, 2014
Cybercrime queries hit record high as police confirm new online banking threat
Police agencies received a record number of queries related to cybercrimes in the January-June period, but arrested fewer online criminals. They also confirmed for the first time the existence of a new form of online banking threat known as the man-in-the-browser attack. During the six-month ...