Sources acquainted with the situation said on Saturday that the number of cyberattacks directed at Japanese businesses and government offices has been on the rise since March, just in time for a Group of Seven meeting that Japan is scheduled to hold in the month of May.
According to the sources, the problems that were caused by DDoS assaults, which are an attempt to interrupt the normal flow of web traffic on a server or network by flooding it with data, were largely resolved in a short amount of time.
