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As Japan navigates the mid-point of the decade, its cybersecurity landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Driven by escalating geopolitical tensions and the rapid proliferation of agentic AI, the nation is shifting its focus from purely technical defenses to a broader strategy of “Cognitive Security” and national resilience. The emergence of a hybrid workforce – where human employees work alongside autonomous AI agents – has redefined the traditional enterprise perimeter. From Japan’s Cybersecurity Strategy to the official launch of their AI Cybersecurity Task Force, the country is facing exponential threats online, and has initiated a series of national strategies to address the dangers originating from AI-powered attacks.

Threat actors are increasingly using AI-enabled social engineering to get around technical security measures, according to a new report from Visa. Social engineering attacks were behind the largest number of losses in the second half of last year.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that a new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called “Kali365” is targeting OAuth tokens to gain direct access to users’ Microsoft 365 accounts without stealing credentials or multifactor authentication codes.

By Bree Fowler, Contributor

Artificial intelligence has already dramatically changed the game for cybersecurity and will continue to revolutionize how both attackers attack and defenders defend for years to come.

The era of “typing into a box” is over. For years, we viewed artificial intelligence as a digital assistant—a sophisticated autocomplete tool that waited for human input. But according to Martin Kraemer, KnowBe4’s CISO Advisor for Europe and the Middle East, that dynamic has shifted. We have moved from asking AI questions to giving AI jobs.