Google Sues Chinese Cybercrime Group for Using AI in Phishing Attacks
Google (GOOGL) has filed a lawsuit against a suspected Chinese cybercrime group called "Outsider Enterprise," alleging it used AI to scale phishing attacks by sending fraudulent text messages impersonating Google and other trusted brands, targeting hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. to steal personal information, Bloomberg's Lorelei Smillie reports. Google worked with AT&T (T), T-Mobile US (TMUS), and Verizon (VZ) to block the texts from reaching potential victims, and the company says there were 9,000 fake websites and more than 1 million fraudulent URLs associated with the cybercrime network, according to a complaint that Google filed on Friday.
