Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Yusuke Katayama played a game of cat and mouse with the authorities, leading them to make numerous wrongful arrests. He threatened a massacre at a comic book event, as well as to attack a school attended by the grandchildren of Japan’s Emperor Akihito. Katayama’s campaign highlighted the difficulties the country’s police force has had in dealing with cyber crime. “He committed the crime, and the purpose of it was [for police] to make wrongful arrests,” said presiding judge Katsunori Ohno at Tokyo District Court, adding that Katayama’s actions had been “vicious”. RiddlesThroughout 2012, the 32-year-old used a virus to gain control of strangers’ computers. He then issued threats – which appeared to come from the computer’s owner – and a series of riddles that captured the attention of the national media. Among the other threats made by Katayama – who went by the alias Demon Killer – was one to attack a plane. The case highlighted the Japanese police’s tendency to extract confessions from suspects, as four people owned up to crimes which the National Police Agency (NPA) later admitted they did not commit. Computers belonging to each had been infected with a Trojan Horse virus, introduced via a link […]
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