Ransomware Attacks Hit Record 123 Cases in First Half, NPA Releases Threat Assessment

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The National Police Agency on the 10th released its assessment of the cyber threat landscape, revealing that 123 cases of ransomware, malware that encrypts data for ransom, were confirmed in the first half of this year from January to June, the highest for any half-year period since statistics began being kept in 2020. Reports of damage rose by 7 cases compared with the same period last year, with 31 of them involving large companies. More than half of all victims took a month or longer to recover, nine companies saw all operations halted, and in 60 percent of cases the damage exceeded 10 million yen. Suspicious accesses detected by the agency surged to about 13,700 per day in the first half, 1.5 times the level of a year earlier, and the agency said the sources of ransomware and other attacks may be probing devices for vulnerabilities. Losses from internet fraud rose 45 percent year on year to 175.5 billion yen, the worst pace on record, while reports of phishing, in which fake emails lure users into giving up passwords and other information, totaled about 730,000, with analysis estimating that 45 percent of the servers sending them were located in China, followed by Japan at 14 percent and Brazil at 10 percent.

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