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Nuclear power plant company a victim of cyber attacks

Japanese defence contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which builds submarines, missiles and nuclear power plants, is the first publicly named victim….

Nuclear plant and missile maker Mitsubishi breached in latest cyber attacks, Security Watchdog, 21 Sept 11, Security experts at Trend Micro have uncovered another large-scale, co-ordinated campaign of targeted attacks, this time focused on compromising data at a series of defence industry companies including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan.

The firms in question, which were also located in Israel, India and the US, were all targeted in a similar way in an attack which began in July.

The attack starts as a targeted email containing a malicious PDF attachment designed to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe Flash and Reader, according to Trend Micro. The malicious payload dropped onto the machine then connects to a command-and-control server and sends network and file name information…….

Japanese defence contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which builds submarines, missiles and nuclear power plants, is the first publicly named victim….

September 21, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, safety