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MONOist reviews moves by Japanese companies to provide broader protection for supply chains, with services that include network monitoring, incident response, and operational technology security. This comes as recent attacks reveal the expanding scope of breaches and their acceleration through artificial intelligence.
A partner of the Akira ransomware operation exploited an exposed SonicWall VPN device without multifactor authentication to access the victim’s network, then disabled security tools by rebooting the system into Safe Mode. The attackers successfully stole data and credentials in less than five hours, but the ransomware payload failed to encrypt files because of memory-related errors.