Phishing texts that mimic a bank alert or a package delivery notice usually point to a fake website built to capture passwords and card numbers. Google says one criminal network used artificial intelligence to build those websites at a scale no human team could match.
Google has filed a civil lawsuit against that network, a China-based operation it calls Outsider Enterprise, accusing it of using Gemini and other AI models to mass-produce phishing sites. TechCrunch reported that the complaint, filed in Manhattan federal court, ties the network to more than 9,000 fake websites and over 1.5 million fraudulent URLs.
In a Friday (June 12) blog post announcing the lawsuit, Google said during a two-week stretch in May, Android users flagged 55,000 spam texts linked to the operation, generating more than two complaints a minute.
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Google’s complaint details how members of Outsider Enterprise allegedly prompted Gemini and other AI platforms…
