Lawyers suing China for 2.2 billion US dollars

Lawyers suing China for 2.2 billion US dollars in an Internet-censoringsoftware piracy case said they came under cyberattack this week.

Attorneys at the California law firm of Gipson Hoffman & Pancione saidthat on Monday they began receiving "Trojan emails" crafted to trickthem into opening files booby-trapped with malicious software code.

"Trojan emails are specially constructed to retrieve data from thetarget's computer and often allow the sender to gain access to thetarget's computer or to the company's servers," the firm said in arelease.

"It has not yet been determined whether any of the attempts weresuccessful."

The law firm last week filed a lawsuit on behalf of Cybersitter accusingChina of using the California company's copyrighted software censorshipprograms being mandated for computers sold in that country.

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