SoftBank CEO apologizes for ransomware hit that took 7 minutes as monthly recon attempts double to 700M
steipete · x · 2026-11-11
SoftBank CEO Junichi Miyakawa apologized at the Nov 9 earnings briefing for a ransomware attack on subsidiary IDC Frontier, where damage occurred just 7 minutes after detection via an out-of-scope open-source vulnerability. Pre-attack reconnaissance now averages 600-700M attempts/month, roughly double last year's 300M, with attackers increasingly using AI. Diagnostics on 700 systems found 10,500 vulnerabilities fixed over three months — and a re-scan using OpenAI's latest "GPT-6 Astra" confirmed 35,000 more ("we're completely exhausted"). SoftBank has shifted to blocking communications first on anomaly detection, and raised its FY net profit forecast to ¥610B.
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