Trend Micro anti-virus zero-day exploited in attack on Mitsubishi Electric

There is some egg on the face of Trend Micro after it is revealed their anti-virus software was exploited to steal data from Mitsubishi Electric, but they aren’t the real villains of the story.

Lax security means hackers could steal your Mitsubishi Outlander

If you’ve got a Mitsubishi Outlander hybrid electric car then you’ve also got a problem.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Hackers steal data on nuclear plants and fighter jets

A high-tech military contractor, which suffered an attack from hackers earlier this year, is reported to have lost sensitive data related to defence equipment including fighter jet planes and nuclear power plant plans.

Hackers attack high-tech military contractor, break into submarine manufacturing plant

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan’s biggest defense contractor, has revealed that it suffered a hacker attack in August that caused some of its networks to be infected by malware.