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Japan to establish cyber bureau to deal with ransomware threats: Official

Tokyo, Oct 13 (UNI/Sputnik) Japan will establish a special bureau in order to deal with cyberspace threats, Director-General of the National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC), Kenichi Takahashi, said on Wednesday.
"In 2022, [we] will establish a cyberbureau to deal with threats in cyberspace and to work with international joint investigations of serious cybercrime cases," the NISC chief said at the opening session of the virtual Counter-Ransomware Initiative summit.
Japan has recently developed a new cybersecurity strategy which allows the government to take steps in order to address digital threats, he added.
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