Japan joins the list of countries possessing cyber weapons

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The malware is expected to be completed by the end of the current fiscal year.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense will begin cyber weapons that will be used exclusively for self-defense. The malware is expected to be created by government contractors and completed by the end of the current fiscal year, local media reported.

According to reports, the malware will include viruses and backdoors, but the authorities have not disclosed information about the capabilities of the program and the situations in which it will be used. Presumably, the development will be used only in cases of attacks on Japanese structures and only against attackers.

Several years ago, Japan was already trying to create cyber weapons. In 2012, the country's government instructed Fujitsu to develop software to detect and neutralize the sources of cyberattacks, but this project did not bring the desired results.

Recall that in January of this year, the Japanese government approved an amendment to the law, giving employees of the National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of Japan the right to hack into IoT devices of citizens as part of a study of the security of gadgets. As part of the program, it is planned to check the security of more than 200 million IoT devices (routers, web cameras, etc.), both home and corporate.