Over 600 Japan entities hit by cyberattacks amid rise in telework

At least 607 Japanese entities, including major firms and government agencies, have been targeted by cyberattacks as hackers exploit vulnerabilities in the technology used for remote work amid the coronavirus pandemic, an information security expert said Monday.Many of the organizations, which are clients of a virtual private network service provided by Fortinet Inc., had staff IDs, passwords and other authentication data stolen after a list of some 50,000 of the U.S. firm's unpatched VPN appliances was leaked on the internet on Nov. 19.Over 10 percent, or around 5,400, of the appliances on…READ FULL ARTICLE