O Hacker que Enganou a Polícia Japonesa | O Caso do Vírus de Controle Remoto

On June 29, 2012, a message appeared on the official website of the Yokohama prefectural government. The content was disturbing: a detailed threat of a mass attack against an elementary school in the city. The text promised large-scale killings against children. The police were immediately alerted. The school suspended classes, and the investigation began. But that was just the first shot. In the following weeks, new threats emerged in different parts of the country. One message announced a knife and truck attack on a busy shopping street in Osaka; the text directly evoked the Akihabara massacre, which had occurred four years earlier in which seven people were killed. The text seemed calculated to provoke maximum panic. Then another threat: an email sent to a kindergarten in Tokyo, promising an indiscriminate attack against young children. Then came the threat to blow up the Isse Shrine, one of the most sacred places in Japan, venerated for over two thousand years. And then came something that paralyzed an entire airport: a bomb threat against a Japan Airlines flight. The aircraft was forced to return, and passengers were disembarked. The damage was immediate and amounted to millions. In less than three months, fourteen threats had been sent. Schools closed, and events were canceled. Dozens of police officers were mobilized to protect locations. Japan was on high alert. And the national media covered each new episode as a headline, and the question everyone was asking was the same: who was behind this? #crimesinjapan #criminalinvestigation #realcrimes #police #stories