Hackers are Stealing your Puzzle Designs

Mindstormscreator · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:27 am

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Anti-virus firm ESET has discovered a trojan that sends AutoCAD technical drawings to an email address in China. So far the AutoCAD spyware appears to have been quite successful: the security researchers' analysis of the email accounts used by the malware determined that tens of thousands of drawings had been acquired. Its likely that the trojan is being used for industrial espionage.

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That's pretty scary, considering this could actually be a viable way certain Chinese manufacturers are getting their hands on stolen puzzle designs... :oops:

Splinter · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:44 am

I knew it would be wise to do engineering work on an (old) computer that has no internet connection.... ;-)

- Splinter

PS The company stealing my designs will probably get broke by lack of success.....

RubixFreakGreg · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:02 am

My passwords are in my password file in the 'images' file located in the 'my documents' on the desktop. They'll never manage to find that !

:wink:

cubervietnam · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:10 am

sounds so bad

RubixFreakGreg wrote:

My passwords are in my password file in the 'images' file located in the 'my documents' on the desktop. They'll never manage to find that !

:wink:

Be careful! they will read this topic :lol:

Splinter · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:17 am

cubervietnam wrote:

Be careful! they will read this topic :lol:

That opens perspectives.... what will we feed them with to produce? :lol:

grigr · **Joined:** Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:38 pm **Location:** Russia

this is a good way to send some puzzles in mass production!
But many designers working in SolidWorks ...

KelvinS · **Joined:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:13 pm

If these guys put in even a fraction of the effort and creativity into designing new products of their own as they do into hacking/stealing/copying other people's designs, we wouldn't stand a chance to compete with them! :lol:

cubedude76 · **Joined:** Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:46 pm **Location:** Wichita

This almost happened to me! gmail warned me that there was an attemp top log into my account from china and I had emailed cad files recently! be sure to add extra security options like I just did!

Splinter · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:07 am

grigr wrote:

this is a good way to send some puzzles in mass production!
But many designers working in SolidWorks ...

Solidworks -> save as 'dxf'
AutoCad: open 'dxf' and save as AutoCad file

(or use IGES format or STP)

:-)

! Keep those designs coming, we're wanting to have mass produced !

:lol:

heiowge · **Joined:** Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:23 pm

KelvinS wrote:

If these guys put in even a fraction of the effort and creativity into designing new products of their own as they do into hacking/stealing/copying other people's designs, we wouldn't stand a chance to compete with them! :lol:

If only someone had told Apple and Microsoft this... :roll:

Mindstormscreator · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:18 am

cubedude76 wrote:

This almost happened to me! gmail warned me that there was an attemp top log into my account from china and I had emailed cad files recently! be sure to add extra security options like I just did!

Wow, so I guess they could be using other techniques besides malware distribution to steal designs (but then again your password could have been acquired through malware on your machine... :roll:

)

heiowge wrote:

If only someone had told Apple and Microsoft this... :roll:

Well Windows 8 is "new and different" and that doesn't make it better

heiowge · **Joined:** Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:23 pm

It looks new, but it still uses a great many features that other OSes have had for years. Except Metro. Thats theirs!

And we know just what a winner it's been on the phone! :lol:

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