Stellantis faces Oct. 29 strike deadline with Unifor in Canada

<p>The union said it is “looking forward” to locking in a deal that matches the pattern set by collective agreements with the other two members of the Detroit 3 while making “additional gains” on workplace issues specific to Stellantis. </p>

https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/u...tis-oct-29

Hyundai, Kia sign semiconductor supply deal for EVs with Infineon

<p>Infineon will build and reserve manufacturing capacity to supply silicon carbide and silicon power modules and chips to Hyundai and Kia until 2030.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/automakers-supp...l-infineon

Tesla crash repairs costly, but other EVs near parity with gas vehicles

<p>Tech-heavy Teslas cost about $1,350 more in collision repairs than combustion vehicles, third-quarter data shows. Rivian and Lucid were higher. But non-Tesla EVs cost just $269 more than gas cars on average.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/service-and-par...-they-look

Ford recalls nearly 35,000 Mustang Mach-E vehicles amid NHTSA probe

<p>The recall covers 2021-22 Mustang Mach-Es equipped with an extended-range battery and comes after NHTSA in August launched an investigation into Ford's handling of a June 2022 recall of nearly 50,000 of the automaker's high-profile EV.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/regulation-safe...amid-probe

Ford promotes Kumar Galhotra to COO; Andrew Frick to lead Ford Blue

<p>The move is part of Ford's push to simplify its business to deliver on the growth plan it laid out in 2021.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/executives/ford...e-business

Stellantis launches commercial vehicle unit to challenge Ford dominance

<p>The effort includes a new business unit called Stellantis Pro One and four electrified pickups arriving in North America over the next two years.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/cars-concepts/s...hicle-push

In China-U.S. lidar fight, national security threats are more speculation than smoki

<p>A patent dispute and claims of a pattern of intellectual property theft by Chinese companies illustrate how trade tensions have creeped into this corner of automotive technology.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/mobility-report...-questions

D-Link Confirms Data Breach: Employee Falls Victim to Phishing Attack

Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer D-Link has confirmed a data breach that led to the exposure of what it said is "low-sensitivity and semi-public information."
"The data was confirmed not from the cloud but likely originated from an old D-View 6 system, which reached its end of life as early as 2015," the company said.
"The data was used for registration purposes back then. So far, no

https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/d-link...loyee.html

TetrisPhantom: Cyber Espionage via Secure USBs Targets APAC Governments

Government entities in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are the target of a long-running cyber espionage campaign dubbed TetrisPhantom.
"The attacker covertly spied on and harvested sensitive data from APAC government entities by exploiting a particular type of secure USB drive, protected by hardware encryption to ensure the secure storage and transfer of data between computer systems," Kaspersky 

https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/tetris...e-via.html

Qubitstrike Targets Jupyter Notebooks with Crypto Mining and Rootkit Campaign

A threat actor, presumably from Tunisia, has been linked to a new campaign targeting exposed Jupyter Notebooks in a two-fold attempt to illicitly mine cryptocurrency and breach cloud environments.
Dubbed Qubitstrike by Cado, the intrusion set utilizes Telegram API to exfiltrate cloud service provider credentials following a successful compromise.
"The payloads for the Qubitstrike campaign are

https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/qubits...books.html