Cyber Security Report #5 – 2023

NTT Security’s latest report on cybersecurity contains three interesting observations.

A former Ubiquiti employee has been sentenced to 6 years in prison and ordered to pay $1.6 million in damages for stealing data and extorting the company.

A woman in Tochigi Prefecture has been arrested for engaging in fraud through the “SIM Swap method,” where phone numbers are hijacked to transfer money.

In May, Japan’s national police agency demonstrated a technique that utilizes internet searches to detect website manipulation.