The law firm representing Solid Oak Software in a $2.2 billion lawsuit against the Chinese government has been targeted by a similar attack to the one recently reported by Google.

"Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, a Los Angeles law firm, says employees began receiving well-crafted e-mail messages that appeared to come from other company staffers," writes Computerworld's Robert McMillan. "The messages tried to get the victims to either open a malicious attachment or visit a Web site that hosted attack code."

"The company reported the attack to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation," McMillan writes.

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