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Japan, known for its innovation and efficiency, is a globally recognized industry leader. This puts Japan-based organizations at risk of being recognized as potentially valuable targets by both criminally motivated and targeted cyber adversaries.

In early June, multiple threat researchers observed attacks on MOVEit servers using a zero day vulnerability that facilitated data exfiltration. MOVEit Transfer is a managed file transfer software that supports the exchange of files and data. This vulnerability allows an attacker to gain access to the database and possibly infer information about the structure and contents of the database.

A month ago, Google released eight new top level domains (TLD). Two of them (.zip and.mov) have been a cause for concern because they are similar to well known file extensions. Both.zip and.mov TLD are not new, as they have been available since 2014. The main concern is that anyone now can own a.zip or.mov domain and be abused for social engineering at a cheap price. Because both of these TLDs are indistinguishable from the file extensions, they can be a great bait for threat actors.