Intellectual Property Theft continues to grace the headlines. 

Malwarebytes is accusing China-based computer security firm IObit of intellectual property theft. Malwarebytes claims IObit stole from its database of signatures of malicious applications that its software uses for detecting malware on customer computers.

Malwarebytes then did something rather interesting in an attempt to verify the IP theft.

Malwarebytes conducted a test and added fake definitions for a fake rogue application to its database of malware. Within two weeks, IObit was detecting the fake files and using "almost exactly" the fake names, Malwarebytes said.

"We soon became convinced that this was not a mistake, it was not a coincidence, it was not an isolated event, and it persisted presently in their current database," the blog post says. "They are using both our database and our database format exactly."

Malwarebytes discovered that IObit's Security 360 free anti-malware software was flagging a specific key generator piece of code for Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware software and using the same naming scheme, which includes the phrase "Don't Steal Our Software," according to a blog post on the Malwarebytes.org site.