There were red faces earlier this year when it was made public that hackers had exploited vulnerabilities in one of Trend Micro’s anti-virus products… to steal information from Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric. We heard then that hackers – speculated to be members of a Chinese state-sponsored gang known as “Tick” – had accessed personal information about thousands of Mitsubishi Electric employees and confidential technical documents six months earlier, having taken advantage of a flaw in Trend Micro OfficeScan that was only eventually fixed in October 2019.

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