TOKYO, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) — A Japanese cybersecurity agency has recognized distributed denial of service (DDoS) assaults concentrating on 46 corporations and organizations in Japan, native media reported Sunday.
Trend Micro recognized and analyzed networks referred to as botnets that had been extremely probably used within the DDoS assaults, wherein huge quantities of information are despatched to web sites or servers to make them crash, public broadcaster NHK reported.
Forty-six companies and organizations in Japan got here beneath such assaults between Dec. 27 and Jan. 9, in accordance with the corporate.
Major Japanese corporations together with Japan Airlines, MUFG Bank and NTT Docomo had been the targets of the cyberattack from late December, leading to glitches of their methods or disrupted entry to their web sites.
Katsuyuki Okamoto at Trend Micro mentioned whereas it’s troublesome to find out the aim of the assaults, they could have been carried out for surveillance in preparation for a full-fledged assault.