Tag: Japan
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Japan’s Largest Scam: Chinese Duo Used Hijacked Accounts to Manipulate Stock Prices
The investigation in Japan has detained two Chinese nationals suspected of orchestrating the largest known market-manipulation scheme involving hijacked brokerage accounts. The men are accused of violating the law prohibiting unauthorized access and of orchestrating securities-price manipulation: according to investigators, they seized control of ten retail investors’ accounts and used them to aggressively inflate the…
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Japan Cyber-Shock: Teen Hacked Kaikatsu Club, Used AI to Bypass Defenses
At the beginning of the year, Japan was shaken by a scandal surrounding a major data breach involving the Kaikatsu Club internet café chain. Law enforcement authorities identified a minor from Osaka Prefecture who, according to investigators, managed to circumvent the security of the company’s official app and disable portions of its functionality. According to…
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Asahi Cyberattack: Qilin Ransomware Exposes 1.5M People, Cripples Production
The Japanese brewing giant Asahi has revealed that a September cyberattack resulted in one of the most significant data incidents in its history: the personal information of more than 1.5 million people was put at risk, while the ensuing disruption affected both production processes and the company’s financial planning. In a published report, Asahi describes…
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Asahi Ransomware Crisis: Qilin Attack Paralyzes Production During Peak Beer Season
At the very height of Japan’s corporate party season, as the country prepares for its annual wave of year-end bonenkai celebrations, Asahi has found itself in crisis: more than a month after a powerful ransomware attack crippled its internal infrastructure on September 29, the company’s systems remain largely paralyzed. The Qilin group has claimed responsibility…
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Qilin Ransomware Claims Hack on Japan’s Super Value Supermarket, Leaks Payroll & P&L Data
The Qilin ransomware group has once again claimed responsibility for a large-scale cyberattack. This time, the hackers allege that their victim is the Japanese supermarket chain Super Value Co., and dozens of files purportedly containing the company’s internal documents have appeared on Qilin’s dark web leak site. Super Value operates a network of combined retail…
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Muji Suspends Online Store After Ransomware Cripples Logistics Partner
The Japanese company Ryohin Keikaku, owner of the Muji brand, has suspended operations of its online store following a cyberattack on its logistics partner, Askul Corp. According to Ryohin Keikaku, the decision was made late on Sunday, October 19, at 9:00 p.m., and the timeframe for restoring the online platform remains undetermined. Askul, a company…
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Asahi Super Dry Supply Crisis Looms in Japan After Cyberattack Halts Production
Earlier this week, we reported on a cyberattack targeting the Japanese brewing giant Asahi, which brought nearly all of its production facilities in Japan to a halt. The aftermath was swift — as the company’s digital infrastructure collapsed, supplies of the popular Super Dry beer began to dwindle rapidly, and some retailers are already anticipating…
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Asahi Suffers Cyberattack, Paralyzing Its Japanese Supply and Distribution Network
Japanese brewing giant Asahi Group Holdings has reported a severe disruption of its internal systems, triggered by a cyberattack. The company confirmed that the incident affected only its Japanese divisions, completely paralyzing its distribution network and forcing a temporary shutdown of its call center. While restoration efforts are underway, only previously shipped beverage stocks remain…
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Google to open its first own data center in Japan in 2023
According to the official blog published by the Google Cloud Computing Platform, Google plans to launch its first data center in Japan next year, located in Inzai City, Chiba. Google has not built a data center in Japan until now, while rivals Amazon and Microsoft have already started their startups in Tokyo. Google, which had…
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Xbox Series X/S is selling three times faster in the Japanese game market than Xbox One in the same period
For a long time, the performance of Microsoft’s Xbox series in the Japanese market has been relatively average, far inferior to Sony’s PlayStation series or Nintendo’s game consoles. On the Xbox platform, no matter what type of game the player likes or the design idea of the product, it seems that it is difficult to…
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Sony and TSMC plan to build a joint venture wafer fab in Japan
In May of this year, it was reported that the Japanese authorities suggested that Sony and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) jointly invest in the construction of a wafer fab, which will use a 20nm-40nm process to produce chips to meet the needs of domestic Japanese companies. As one of the world’s major manufacturing countries,…
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Japan’s Fair Trade Commission begins to investigate whether Google and Apple have abused their dominant position in the market
Earlier, the US and South Korean antitrust regulators and government agencies investigated Google and Apple. The main question was whether Google and Apple violated regulations. However, solving the problems in the Korean market is not the end for Google and Apple, because now Japanese antitrust regulators are also investigating whether there are violations. Japan’s Fair…
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Japan investigates Apple and Google about monopolistic behavior in the smartphone market
According to The Japan Times using the Nikkei newspaper as its sole source., the Japanese government will investigate the smartphone operating system market to determine whether there is an obstacle to fair competition. In the Japanese smartphone operating system market, Apple and Google have a market share of more than 90%. The Japanese government intends…
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Report: the U.S. is pressing Japan and other allies to ban Chinese apps
Previously, the US government represented by Trump called on the American people to agree to ban the short video application TikTok from ByteDance because of privacy and security issues. For now, there are no specific results for adding ByteDance to the entity list, but the White House has banned employees from installing TikTok applications on…
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U.S. and Japan propose to establish central bank digital currency
There have been rumors for a long time that the People’s Bank of China and its affiliates are developing digital currencies, which are state-led virtual currency products based on blockchain technology. However, these are only rumors that have not been officially confirmed, but even this has attracted the attention of the United States and Japan,…
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Japan restricts the export of some tech materials to South Korea
Japan announced trade restrictions on July 1, which will make it more difficult for Korean companies such as Samsung and LG to purchase materials and technologies for manufacturing chips and smartphones. From July 4th, Japanese companies will need government approval to export polyimides that used for the manufacture of chips and smartphones to Korean companies.…