By Cecilia Kang
Publication Date: 2026-06-12 09:10:00
Google sued a Chinese cybercrime network on Friday, accusing it of using the company’s artificial intelligence to blast online financial scams to hundreds of thousands of Americans.
The internet giant also said it was coordinating for the first time with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and wireless providers such as AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon to shut down the network, known as Outsider Enterprise.
The Chinese group used Gemini, Google’s A.I. system, to create hundreds of fake websites mimicking companies like Google and YouTube and government operations like the Postal Service and New York’s E-ZPass service for highway tolls, the lawsuit said.
Google warned that A.I. had supercharged the problem of online scams and said it was trying to get ahead of what it believed could be a surge of online fraud using Gemini and other A.I. tools.
A.I.-powered scams are growing faster than other types of online phishing and fraud schemes, Google and law enforcement say. Cybercriminals…
