Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity was reportedly suspected to be compromised by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Aside from confirming earlier this month that its email exchanges were compromised following an email system hack that began last October, NISC has not provided more details regarding the intrusion, with the attribution to Chinese hackers made by government and private sector sources cited by the Financial Times.

Source: SC Magazine