{
  "id": 12061547,
  "title": "Japan to bolster cyberthreat-hunting for critical infrastructure systems",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/japan-to-bolster-cyberthreat-hunting-for-critical-infrastructure",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-05T01:54:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Japan Times",
    "slug": "japan-times",
    "url": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/05/japan/japan-cyber-threat-hunting-measures/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Japanese government has announced plans to strengthen cybersecurity measures in fiscal 2027, with a focus on detecting and combating hidden threats to critical infrastructure systems. This includes power utilities and telecommunications companies. The government aims to develop methods to identify cyberattack threats and share them with private-sector firms to prevent potential disruptions that could lead to a national crisis. The National Cybersecurity Office (NCO) will utilize specific threat intelligence to recreate attacks in a virtual environment and develop threat detection methods for the private sector. The Defense Ministry will also provide direct assistance, including dispatching personnel to critical infrastructure operators at their request. The NCO and Defense Ministry have included related expenses in their budget requests for fiscal 2027. Concerns have arisen over the high costs associated with accumulating and analyzing logs needed for threat hunting, which require significant labor. NTT Data Japan has been conducting threat hunting in its in-house systems since 2024, using logs to search for suspicious activity even in the absence of warnings. The company's official stated that expanding this activity requires demonstrating its cost-effectiveness to management. An NCO official emphasized that merely preparing for attacks involving hidden threats may not be sufficient for company executives to invest in such measures, as threat hunting can also help address ransomware, a more familiar threat to companies, employing similar tactics such as probing systems after gaining entry.",
  "summary": "The government will develop methods to detect cyberattack threats and share them with utilities and telecommunications companies.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}