Russian cyberattack paralyses Japan’s largest port

Russian hackers brought Japan’s busiest cargo port to a virtual standstill for two days with a cyberattack on the system that manages the loading and offloading of containers.

Nagoya port, which is a main shipping hub for the carmaker Toyota, was targeted on Tuesday morning by the Russia-based LockBit hacker group, which demanded a ransom to restore control of the system to the port operator.

The system went down at about 6.30am, when an employee was unable to start a computer. A message indicating that the computer system had been infected with LockBit ransomware was sent to a printer, according to local media.

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Operations were partially restarted on Thursday afternoon. Work on the computer system infected with the virus took longer than expected, according to