Japanese Police Arrest Alleged Spammers

Police in Japan have arrested two men  suspected of being involved in an alleged Hentai-themed malware scam campaign. Oka Akira, 27, from Tokyo and an unnamed 20-year-old are accused of defrauding tens of thousands of yen from a minority of their 5,000 targets.

The pair stand accused of posting a fake version of a Hentai game onto file sharing websites. The alleged game installer required users to enter a series…

‘Ransomware’ Targets Japanese Porn Site Users

A Japanese cyber gang has come up with a way to extort money off those who pirate adult games: Pay up, or you will be embarrassed online.

According to Computerworld, this type of scam is a new one in the world of “ransomware”–the practice of holding hostage a computer system or the data it contains, and then extorting money from its rightful owner.

Trend Micro researchers in Japan and the…

Cleaning Botnets the Japanese Way

Botnets are an increasing problem in the Internet community and will likely become even more problematic once Africa (reputed to have the largest number of infected computers) gets widespread access to broadband. The Japanese have taken an interesting approach to combating botnets, networks of infected computers that can be controlled remotely for nefarious purposes, working with ISPs in an attempt to clean computers that become infected.

The Cyber…