Japan's Finance Minister Katayama Satsuki said that Japan will deal with the damage caused by cyber attacks on foreign exchange trading platforms with a sense of urgency, and no new attacks have been discovered yet. “In view of these incidents and the rapidly changing circumstances, we will continue to ask the financial supervisory authorities to take appropriate and quick response measures based on the development of the situation,” Katayama Satsuki told reporters on Tuesday. She also said that “the whole world has a common sense of crisis” when it comes to cybersecurity, and mentioned discussions with G7 colleagues in Bangkok last week. When Katayama Satsuki made these remarks, dozens of Japanese companies reported that their systems had been hacked in recent weeks, and customer data may have been leaked. At the same time, global concerns are growing that attackers are using artificial intelligence to discover and exploit cybersecurity breaches. In a recent incident, IT service provider GMO Network Group reported that its foreign exchange trading platform had been accessed without authorization, and some customers indicated that transactions were not initiated by them in their accounts. Katayama Satsuki said that five foreign exchange trading companies have reported that customers were affected by the GMO incident. However, she indicated that no new unauthorized transaction reports have been received so far. GMO asked the government for help to cut off the source of the attack on Saturday. Masatoshi Kumagai, the company's CEO, said in a blog post that the company received an extortion request and the other party demanded a $50 million cryptocurrency ransom, but the company refused to pay.

Japan's Finance Minister Katayama Satsuki said that Japan will deal with the damage caused by cyber attacks on foreign exchange trading platforms with a sense of urgency, and no new attacks have been discovered yet. “In view of these incidents and the rapidly changing circumstances, we will continue to ask the financial supervisory authorities to take appropriate and quick response measures based on developments,” Katayama Satsuki told reporters on Tuesday. She also said that “the whole world has a common sense of crisis” when it comes to cybersecurity, and mentioned discussions with G7 colleagues in Bangkok last week. When Katayama Satsuki made these remarks, dozens of Japanese companies reported that their systems had been hacked in recent weeks, and customer data may have been leaked. At the same time, global concerns are growing that attackers are using artificial intelligence to discover and exploit cybersecurity breaches. In a recent incident, IT service provider GMO Network Group reported that its foreign exchange trading platform had been accessed without authorization, and some customers indicated that transactions were not initiated by them in their accounts. Katayama Satsuki said that five foreign exchange trading companies have reported that customers were affected by the GMO incident. However, she indicated that no new unauthorized transaction reports have been received so far. GMO asked the government for help to cut off the source of the attack on Saturday. Masatoshi Kumagai, the company's CEO, said in a blog post that the company received an extortion request and the other party demanded a $50 million cryptocurrency ransom, but the company refused to pay.