Suspected industrial espionage definition

#SUSPECTED INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE DEFINITION SOFTWARE#

ACAD/Medre.A is also known as: ALisp/Blemfox.A (Microsoft), (BitDefender), (Symantec). According to Autodesk, вЂњACAD/Medre.A is an AutoLISP program disguised as an acad.fas file. We encourage all our customers worldwide to remain vigilant against malware and other threats by following security best practices and keeping malware definition files up-to-date.вЂќДЄutodesk recently put up a FAQ page. In researching the malware, we have come to the conclusion that this is not a new threat, but a previously identified malware that will be caught and cleaned by existing antivirus solutions.

Most likely, businesses in Peru do business with others in the same country.вЂќДЄutodesk press office said, вЂњAutodesk is working with ESET and others to help stop the propagation of this malware and unauthorized transmission of AutoCAD drawings. People in the same community, maybe the same company, will trade files and infect each otherвЂ™s computers. Therefore, he pointed out, вЂњItвЂ™s not surprising the spread is regional. Once you open an infected AutoCAD file, your machine becomes infected too. This virus, Bureau explained, spreads very much like contact-based human viruses. But we donвЂ™t necessarily know if the people operating it are in China.вЂќ What we can say is, the drop box is in China. вЂњIt could be someone trying to mislead the research community or the intelligence community to blame China. вЂњItвЂ™s possible this email account in China is used by someone outside China,вЂќ he noted. We saw the peak in activities around April and May.вЂќ Bureau cautioned against drawing immediate conclusions based on the email addressesвЂ™ location, China. Pierre-marc Bureau, ESETвЂ™s senior malware researcher, said, вЂњWe first received the sample around February 2012. In fact, they increased from an average of 77 per day in 2010 to 82 per day in 2011.вЂќ According to SymantecвЂ™s most recent Internet Security Threat Report, targeted attacks, such as those used for cyber espionage, continue to increase in frequency. Vikram Thakur, principal security response manager of Symantec, developers of the popular Norton AntiVirus software, noted, вЂњItвЂ™s not surprising the creators of this latest sample have moved in that direction. It will try to do this using 22 other accounts at 163.com and 21 accounts at qq.com, another Chinese internet provider.вЂќ

ESETвЂ™s research shows that the worm steals files and sends them to email accounts located in China.вЂќД®SET senior research fellow Righard Zwienenberg characterized the malware as вЂњa serious case of suspected industrial espionage.вЂќ He explained, вЂњAfter some configuration, ACAD/Medre.A sends opened AutoCAD drawings by email to a recipient with an e-mail account at the Chinese 163.com internet provider. The firm announced, вЂњRecently the worm, ACAD/Medre.A, showed a big spike in Peru on ESETвЂ™s LiveGrid (a cloud-based malware collection system utilizing data from ESET users worldwide).

#SUSPECTED INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE DEFINITION SOFTWARE#

Could your AutoCAD files be going to an email address in China without your knowledge? They may be, according to security software developer ESET.

Suspected industrial espionage definition