According to Masatoshi Fujitani, head of the Tokyo-based Japan Forum for Strategic Studies (JFSS), the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo will be the target of violent cyberattacks. He is expecting a hacker attack from Russia. Mr. Fujitani, a former top police officer in Japan, published an article in the online publication JB Press, based on the reasoning around the hacker group DarkSide, allegedly involved in the attack on the biggest US petrol pipeline Colonial Pipeline and allegedly linked to Russia. He believes that "a Russian hacker group is targeting the Tokyo Olympics." "In Japan, we have already started training "white hackers" and creating government hacker organizations," noted the Japanese expert. The head of the JFSS calls on developed countries such as Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom to unite and take decisive action in collaboration with public and private specialized organizations working in the field of cyber defense. Summ...
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