Attackers gained unauthorized access to the infrastructure of Onamae.com Desktop Cloud, a VPS service run by GMO Internet in Japan, and installed "unauthorized programs" in some customers' server environments. GMO confirmed the intrusion on October 20, 2026 (bleepingcomputer.com, gbhackers.com). It began rolling shutdowns of all Desktop C…
Insikt Group (Recorded Future) observed a 48% rise in reported cyberattacks on Japanese organizations between Q2 and Q3 2026, from 621 to 918 incidents. Masaaki Taira, head of Japan's NCSH, declared a "state of emergency in cyberspace". Victims span retail, rail, logistics, media, education and software. Incidents involved ransomware, sto…
A Chinese-speaking threat actor used AI agents coordinated through the open-source Cairn platform to attempt intrusions against more than 1,200 websites, reportedly compromising sites of over 100 companies, including Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins. Researcher Snorre Fagerland of NorForge found the activity while monitoring internet-exposed…
In late August 2026, Sekoia TDR observed an attacker interact with an unauthenticated Flowise honeypot emulating v2.2.8. The attacker enumerated chatflows and stored credentials, created a rogue "System Status" chatflow with a callback to attacker infrastructure (154.217.251.226), and used prompt injection to turn the LLM agent into an of…