Advisories describing the vulnerabilities were published this month by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Mitsubishi Electric. SecurityWeek has also obtained additional information from people involved in the discovery and disclosure of these flaws. One advisory describes a critical vulnerability that exposes the affected control systems to unauthenticated XML external entity injection…

Japanese multinational Mitsubishi Electric has admitted that it had suffered a data breach some six months ago, and that “personal information and corporate confidential information may have been leaked.” The company, though, claims that “sensitive information on social infrastructure such as defense, electric power, and railways, highly confidential technical information, and important information concerning business…