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Policy & Law

Japan's Police Helped Take Down a 1.3-Million-Device Botnet. The Takedown Itself Happened in a US Court

Twice in a month, Japan's National Police Agency announced takedowns of criminal infrastructure with Microsoft and Google. Japanese media called the latest one 'neutralization', but in both cases the legal step was the company's action in the United States, not the police's new power under the active cyber defense law. Here is what the police did, what the companies did, and what is left on Japanese networks.

Analysis

How GMO Fought an Extortion in Public, and Why That Helped the Attackers

GMO Internet answered the extortion of its Onamae.com Desktop Cloud customers with a public campaign: a request for active cyber defense, a CEO blog, a $1 million bounty with daily tip counts and a stream of social media posts. Its customer advice was good. The spectacle around it was, in our view, the worst way to respond to people who need attention.