October 9, 2026
- Ransomware took down a Japanese cloud region. IDC Frontier (SoftBank subsidiary) says an attack beginning 7 October at 03:40 local forced a shutdown of IDCF Cloud's East Japan Region 1, affecting 495 companies and local governments; management-console access has been disabled across all regions pending verification. Pre-lockout screenshots show the actor claiming seven minutes to breach, 225 databases and 3.6 PB encrypted, 239 hypervisors reached, 16,000 VM disks sealed and 554,153 snapshots wiped — operator claims, not confirmed (BleepingComputer). · Threat Activity
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