Apology and Request Regarding Suspicious Emails Impersonating Our Company (3rd Report)
We deeply apologize for causing a great deal of inconvenience and concern to all concerned regarding the "suspicious emails" that have been occurring since March 15, 2022.
As a result of continuing the investigation under the guidance of the system management company, some PC terminals in the company may have been infected with the malware "Emotet", and suspicious emails pretending to be from our employees (spoofing emails) were received. , We have confirmed that it is sent from a server used by our company or a server unrelated to our company.
Regarding the terminal in question, we are disconnecting it from the network and initializing the terminal.
In addition, we will continue to investigate whether there is any other impact and strive to prevent secondary damage and spread.
We have been working on computer virus countermeasures and blocking suspicious emails, but in response to this incident, we will work to further strengthen security, so we ask for your understanding and cooperation. increase.
A request to everyone who received a suspicious e-mail pretending to be someone related to our company <br>If you receive an e-mail claiming to be an employee of our company and it has an attached file, please check your e-mail address.
Normally, the e-mail address that our employees use for business is " *****@miyakomesse.jp ". If you do not recognize any emails that use addresses other than this, please delete them without opening them .
[Reference] For details on "Emotet", please refer to the following website from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Cyber Security Countermeasures Headquarters.
https://www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/kurashi/cyber/joho/emotet.html