Japan cloud ransomware outage disrupts 495 organizations
Daily Cyber News: Ransomware attack disrupts Japan's IDCF Cloud used by govt clients
A ransomware attack has disrupted an IDCF Cloud data center cluster serving eastern Japan, affecting 495 companies and local governments. Operator IDC Frontier isolated and shut down systems in East Japan Region 1 after the attack began on October 7th. It also disabled access to management consoles across all regions while checking their security.
Key context: Customers may be unable to manage virtual servers, storage, networking, websites, applications, and other business systems hosted on the service.
Additional detail: Organizations should now inventory affected dependencies, activate continuity plans, and verify that recoverable backups exist outside the impacted environment.
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