A US law firm representing a web content-filtering company in a piracy lawsuit against the Chinese government said on Wednesday that it received malicious emails in a targeted attack from China similar to recent attacks on Google and other US companies.
At least 10 employees at Gipson Hoffman & Pancione received the emails on Monday and Tuesday, according to Gregory Fayer, a lawyer at the Los Angeles-based firm.
The firm filed a $2.2bn lawsuit last week on behalf of Solid Oak Software against the Chinese government, two Chinese software developers, and seven PC manufacturers. The suit alleges that they illegally copied code from Solid Oak's Cybersitter web content-filtering program and distributed the code as part of a Chinese government-sponsored censorship program involving China-created Green Dam Youth Escort filtering software.
For more on this story, see US law firm behind China piracy suit targeted in attacks on CNET News.
