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ba-cybersecurity.comCyber Defense Observatory

Public, source-linked measurement of disclosed breaches, exploited vulnerabilities and the state of public web defenses — Japan and worldwide, updated daily.

Daily editions · latest 3 Nov 2026, 23:30 JSTMonthly · edition 2026-10Newspaper · 3 Nov, issued 06:04 JST

Radars

Six update daily, one monthly. Each card shows the headline figure of its radar, computed from the same published data; the radar page has the tables, the sources and the method.

Japan Breach Radar

Cyber incidents disclosed by organisations in Japan: route of entry, whether it was exploited from outside, linked to the organisation's own notice where one exists.

200
Daily counts, 28 days to 1 Nov; peak 20.
incidents, 30 days to 2 Nov

7 days 79 · own notice linked 88 %

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US Breach Radar

Incidents disclosed by US organisations through SEC 8-K Item 1.05 filings, HHS and state attorney-general notices.

82
Daily counts, 28 days to 2 Nov; peak 10.
incidents, 30 days to 2 Nov

7 days 31 · preceding 30 days 106

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Ransomware Radar

Attacker claims on ransomware leak sites worldwide (unverified), and how publicly released negotiations go: tactics, demands, discounts.

1,120
Daily counts, 28 days to 2 Nov; peak 83.
attacker claims, 30 days to 2 Nov (unverified)

76 groups active · 39 victim-disclosed cases · preceding 30 days 958

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Vulnerability Radar

New vulnerabilities ranked by exploitation: added to CISA KEV, likely to be exploited (EPSS), with severity, by product and vendor. Japanese.

37
Monthly counts, last 12 months to 2026-10; peak 43.
added to CISA KEV, 30 days to 30 Oct

7 days 12 · EPSS ≥ 0.9, 90 days 340

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WAF Rule Watch

Public rule updates by WAF vendors, and which actively exploited CVEs their texts name. Listed in Awesome-WAF ↗.

40
Daily counts, 28 days to 3 Nov; peak 7.
rule updates, 30 days to 3 Nov

17 of 112 exploited CVEs named by at least one vendor · 7 vendors active

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PHP2Shell Watch

Public reports on exploitation of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, and how many say an attack succeeded.

0
Daily counts, 14 days to 3 Nov; peak 14.
reports of a successful attack, as of 3 Nov

28 public reports from 27 publishers · 18 describe attempts only

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Japan Web Infrastructure Posturemonthly

Routing security (RPKI), TLS configuration, post-quantum readiness and hosting concentration of key Japanese websites — government, finance, infrastructure, municipalities, universities, companies — measured passively once a month. Japanese.

96 %
finance sites with RPKI-valid routes · edition 2026-10

central government 100 % · post-quantum TLS: finance 74 %, government 90 % · 5,792 sites in 7 sectors

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The Cyber Newspaper — latest edition

Daily cybersecurity news for corporate security teams, compiled every morning by an AI editor from public reporting, with a link to every source. English and Japanese.

Edition of 3 Nov 2026

Watch remotely managed devices and outside vendors

Pages: exploited vulnerabilities, incidents, threats and policy, from Japan and the world. Every item is labeled with its source.

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Extra editions

How this observatory works

Public sources only

Every figure comes from public disclosures, regulatory filings, vendor changelogs or public datasets. Nothing is collected from clients or private systems.

Every item links to its source

Each incident links to the organisation's own notice where one exists, otherwise to the report it was taken from.

AI-assisted; machine-checked, not reviewed item by item

Extraction is AI-assisted. Before publishing, every page passes an automated check of its shape, sources and forbidden content; a page that fails is not published and the previous edition stays. Items are not reviewed one by one — read the source.

Archived and correctable

Daily snapshots of every radar's data are kept on GitHub (CC BY 4.0), corrections included.

A research activity, not an institution: not a government agency, CERT or vendor.

Run by

ba-cybersecurity.com is the name under which Nobuo Otoi, a cybersecurity researcher in Tokyo, publishes research. The main line studies the defense of web applications: how web application firewalls produce false positives, and how to predict the effect of a configuration change before it is deployed.

A second line is measurement — of email authentication, of routing and TLS posture, and of disclosed incidents. The radars above are the automated, public part of that measurement line.

Other topics in preparation: security of LLM use in business, and cyber risk assessment methods. An open-source tool for predicting the impact of OWASP CRS configuration changes, with a pre-registered prospective validation, is in preparation.