Japan Cyber Security Will Launch SHIELD SCANNER AI on October 20
The launch lands as disclosed leaks of a million or more records already exceed the full-year 2025 count, and the National Police Agency warns that attackers' use of high-performance AI will make attacks faster and larger.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Japan Cyber Security will begin offering SHIELD SCANNER AI on October 20, 2026, an advanced version of its SHIELD SCANNER vulnerability diagnosis service. Qualified security engineers direct diagnostic AI and an agent infrastructure, combined with tool-based and manual diagnosis, to find weaknesses in corporate websites and web applications from an attacker's perspective. The company cites a record pace of personal information leaks and rising suspicious access reported by the National Police Agency.
Japan Cyber Security is positioning the new service against a specific failure mode: attackers combining readily available AI models with tools that run them autonomously. The company says that combination is expected to shorten the time between finding a weakness in a public site and exploiting it.
The context it cites is concrete. Tokyo Shoko Research counted 10 incidents of a million or more leaked records disclosed by listed companies and their subsidiaries as of October 5, 2026, against 6 for all of 2025, with 3 of this year's cases at 10 million or more. The National Police Agency reported 13,687 suspicious access cases per day per IP address in the first half of 2026, up 50.7 percent year on year. The National Cybersecurity Office issued an alert on October 9 urging regular vulnerability diagnosis.
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