{"id":623081,"date":"2026-10-07T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/623081\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T08:00:19","slug":"cyberattacks-sweep-japan-and-south-korea-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/623081\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberattacks sweep Japan and South Korea businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/cybersecurity\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cybersecurity<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Experts probe AI&#8217;s role but links between incidents remain unclear<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20261006 Hacker Korea Japan\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Cybersecurity experts say AI could be used in the preparatory stages of an attack, but finding evidence that it was wielded in the attack itself remains hard to trace.<\/p>\n<p>TSUBASA SURUGA and STEVEN BOROWIEC<\/p>\n<p>October 7, 2026 11:57 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO\/SEOUL &#8212; A series of major cyberattacks has hit businesses in Japan and South Korea in recent weeks, exposing millions of customer records and raising concerns that artificial intelligence could be helping hackers intensify their operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity Experts probe AI&#8217;s role but links between incidents remain unclear Cybersecurity experts say AI could be used&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,10166,72506,1759,13734,111,139,69,1240,6564,145],"class_list":["post-623081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-businesses","tag-cyberattacks","tag-japan","tag-korea","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-south","tag-sweep","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}