Seriously? Japan Got Hit With Ransomware. Who’d Have Thought?

Right, so apparently some script kiddies decided Japan was worth the effort in the first half of 2025. Shocking. Cisco Talos has been poking around and found that yeah, ransomware attacks *did* happen there. Not a massive spike, thankfully – only 38 reported incidents, but don’t get comfy. It’s still fucking ransomware.

LockBit 3.0 was the biggest pain in the ass, responsible for over half of the attacks. Clop and BlackCat were also sniffing around, because originality is *clearly* dead. Mostly targeted manufacturing (surprise, surprise), followed by finance and IT services. They’re using the usual crap – phishing emails, exploiting vulnerabilities…the same garbage we’ve been dealing with for years. Honestly, if you haven’t patched your systems yet, you deserve whatever you get.

The report whines about how Japan’s reporting is…suboptimal. Like, they don’t *always* shout it from the rooftops when they get screwed over. No shit, Sherlock. Makes tracking things harder for everyone else. They also point out that a lot of these attacks are probably going unreported because companies are too embarrassed to admit they got pwned.

Bottom line? Japan’s not immune. It’s getting hit, it’ll get hit again, and people need to wake the hell up and actually secure their systems instead of relying on hope and prayers. And probably better incident reporting too, for crying out loud.

Source: Talos Intelligence – Because someone has to document this idiocy.

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Reminds me of the time a client insisted on running Windows XP “because it just works.” Three months later, they were paying *me* a fortune to clean up a ransomware mess. I swear, some people actively try to get hacked.

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