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A 28-year-old Russian man, alleged to be a core member of the Chilean ransomware gang, has been handed from Japan to Germany.

Japan's National Police Agency confirmed the arrest this week.

It's a rare win against a group that has disrupted UK health services.

It's also a good moment to ask what actually keeps a ransomware gang in business.

AI exploitation believed behind skyrocketing cyberattacks.

Cyberattacks and leaks of personal information have surged this year, as companies and the National Police Agency struggle to keep pace technologically to thwart such breaches.

The perpetrators have attacked a variety of industry sectors, not just customer service companies.

Yusuke Nakajima, a cybersecurity specialist at NTT Data Group Corporation, suspects the use of artificial intelligence is behind the sharp rise in unauthorized access attempts and attacks.

Prosecution will not indict former top police officer over fraud.

The former cybercrime division manager of the National Police Agency will not be indicted for alleged offenses such as fraudulently obtaining investigation expenses, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office announced on September thirtieth.

Prosecutors explained the decision was made after taking into account that the former NPA official had returned the funds and had been dismissed as a disciplinary measure.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department referred the fifty-five-year-old man to prosecutors on September tenth on suspicion of fraud, breach of trust, and other offenses.

And the FBI had their version of it.

But I think the National Police Agency of Japan really took the lead on a lot of this stuff.

It feels like.

That's what it seemed like.

Their operations in a 21st century Japan are reflective of some of the finer points of modern Japanese policing culture, as well as self-proclaimed Yakuza ethos, which may bear some similarities to Western policing and organized crime, but is actually quite unique in many interesting ways.

In Japan, the way that the police are organized is that there is a nationalized governmental agency called the Keisatsu-chō, or the National Police Agency.

This agency oversees, coordinates, and administers police activity on the prefectural level.

The National Police Agency is itself administered and overseen by a non-governmental agency called the Kokka Kōan Iinkai, or the National Public Safety Commission, which ensures that the police remain apolitical and free from direct obligation to the government.

What this means is that while there is a government agency that oversees policing, it is in collaboration with a non-governmental agency to make sure that the prime minister or a member of the Japanese parliament can't just mobilize the police on a whim.

Every prefecture manages its own police forces that report directly to the prefectural branch of the National Public Safety Commission.

Each prefecture decides how the police are organized across their area of responsibility.

Starting from the ground up, we see that in a given town or city, an individual officer or group of officers will be assigned to a particular precinct over which they have direct jurisdiction.

These transnational crimes is a recent post COVID-19 phenomenon, one that is entirely foreign to our national culture, values, and identity.

An official from Japan's National Police Agency addressed the conference.

He said stronger cooperation is needed, not only between governments, but also with private sector partners, including financial institutions.

Earlier in the week, Cambodian authorities took reporters inside several former compounds.

All of this landed in a country already rattled, since a few highly unusual crimes had just taken place.

In March, the Aum Shinrikyo cult had released siren on the Tokyo subway, and ten days later the head of the National Police Agency was shot and badly wounded outside his home.

The country was on edge, and there was some speculation that this disturbing attack on the supermarket was in some way linked to this wider violence.

Detectives, for their part, initially investigated a much more grounded possibility, and that was a robbery gone wrong.