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Avant! Corporation (Cadence Design Systems case)COMP-AVANT competitor

🇺🇸 US

aka Avant! Corporation (Cadence Design Systems case), Avant!, Avant Corporation

Last updated: 2026-08-20

0attributed CVEs
0ATT&CK techniques
0.0IDF score (tooling uniqueness)
0exclusive CVEs
—years active

About this actor

EDA software firm founded by ex-Cadence engineers; convicted 2001 in Santa Clara County (CA) of stealing Cadence place-and-route source code. $195M criminal restitution + $265M civil settlement; acquired by Synopsys 2002. Largest US trade-secret criminal case of the 1990s.

How we know this

Data origin
Curated overlay Industrial-espionage / competitor entry synthesised from public reporting and court filings — not a MITRE-tracked intrusion set.
Techniques
No ATT&CK techniques mapped.
Named victims
1 extracted from reporting.

Thin data: No ATT&CK techniques are mapped yet — the behavioural profile is empty. Only one named victim is on file.

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Activity timeline

No activity events recorded.

Profile

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No attributed CVEs.

No techniques attributed.

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