Japanese government body responsible for national cybersecurity policy and cross-agency coordination.
Japan's government told ministries, local authorities and companies to patch known flaws and tighten supplier security after 20-plus firms disclosed attacks. For operators the practical items are supplier maps, contractor logins and how long ID images are kept.
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Japan's government will build and test methods to find attackers already inside power and telecom networks, with costs in fiscal 2027 budget requests. For operators, the job extends past answering alerts to searching for intruders who never set one off.
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The G7 Cyber Security Working Group's June call to action says the quantum threat is off the radar and under-resourced at most organizations, and it hands CISOs the wording to fund a cryptographic inventory this cycle.
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Japan, the US, Australia and Germany put eight months of North Korea's developer-targeting campaign at $10.71 million taken from more than 7,000 wallets. CertiK counted $2.06 billion of North Korea-linked crypto theft in 2025 alone.
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A joint advisory ties about $10.71 million of stolen cryptocurrency to more than 30,000 infected devices in over 100 countries. That works out near $357 a machine, and the payroll half of the same operation ran for years.
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