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Japan's GMO urges customers to shut down PCs amid ransomware threat

·Source: BleepingComputer

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Executive Summary

The GMO Group has urged customers to disconnect their systems from the internet and shut down computers after a threat actor who breached the company's Onamae Desktop Cloud threatened to launch a ransomware attack today. [...]

Analysis

The GMO Group has urged customers to disconnect their systems from the internet and shut down computers after a threat actor who breached the company's Onamae Desktop Cloud threatened to launch a ransomware attack today. [...]
Source Attribution

Originally published by BleepingComputer on Oct 27, 2026.

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