The Japanese government has been quietly developing a cyberweapon. A virus which has the ability to trace cyberattack sources beyond the immediate source to all “springboard” computers used in the transmission of the virus “to a high degree of accuracy” for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, the report noted.
The Defense Ministry is in the process of developing a computer virus capable of tracking, identifying and disabling sources of cyber-attacks, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
The development of the virtual cyberweapon was launched in 2008. Since then, the weapon has been tested in a closed network environment.
Source: Daily Yomiuri
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