{"id":231751,"date":"2026-02-21T01:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/japanese-tech-giant-advantest-hit-by-ransomware-attack"},"modified":"2026-02-21T01:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:12:57","slug":"japanese-tech-giant-advantest-hit-by-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/japanese-tech-giant-advantest-hit-by-ransomware-attack","title":{"rendered":"Japanese tech giant Advantest hit by ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-tech-giant-advantest-hit-by-ransomware-attack.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advantest Corporation disclosed that its corporate network has been targeted in a ransomware attack that may have affected customer or employee data.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigation results revealed that an intruder gained access to certain parts of the company\u2019s network on February 15.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo-based Advantest is a global leader in testing equipment for semiconductors, measuring instruments, digital consumer products, and wireless communications equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advantest Corporation disclosed that its corporate network has been targeted in a ransomware attack that may have affected customer or employee data. Preliminary investigation results revealed that an intruder gained access to certain parts of the company\u2019s network on February 15. Tokyo-based Advantest is a global leader in testing equipment for semiconductors, measuring instruments, digital [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}