blog post<\/a> in which he described the payment as \u201ca token of our initial sincerity towards our customers who have experienced inconvenience and worry.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWe will dedicate the full resources of our group to providing a free alternative environment for six months, fundamentally overhauling our system infrastructure, and conducting a thorough investigation into the cause and preventing recurrence with the help of external experts,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
But he also admitted that GMO knew the service\u2019s security could be improved.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur in-house white-hat hackers had previously pointed out areas for improvement to the team,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe team took these points to heart and was working on countermeasures.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, while we proceeded cautiously, considering the impact on service availability and prioritizing other issues, our response lacked sufficient depth and speed, allowing the attackers to exploit the vulnerability. I deeply regret that, despite having professionals on staff, we failed to fully translate their expertise into effective defenses as an organization.\u201d<\/p>\n
The CEO also said GMO can\u2019t secure itself without government help.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve been involved in this world for 31 years, since the dawn of the internet industry,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe cyberspace that I built with my colleagues, believing it would bring smiles to people’s faces, is now on the verge of being completely destroyed by malicious actors.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ease with which open weight AI models can be combined and spread into countless attack tools has transformed cyberattacks, which once required advanced skills, into an era where anyone can easily carry them out,\u201d he added, before claiming that GMO Group\u2019s cybersecurity operation \u201chas confirmed that the source of an unauthorized access attack targeting approximately 20 Japanese companies was the misuse of \u2018ARTEX,\u2019 an autonomous AI penetration testing tool originally intended for defense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kumagai thinks public\/private partnerships are needed to improve infosec across Japan.<\/p>\n
\u201cYesterday, we submitted a proposal to the government to \u2018apply proactive cyber defense,\u2019\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are by no means trying to shift the blame for our company’s actions onto the government and beg for a bailout,\u201d he wrote, but argued that unless Japan implements national-level defenses, more such incidents are unavoidable. \u00ae<\/p>\n
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