Google Sues Chinese Cybercrime Network that Used Gemini to Automate Scams
Google says the network created 9,000 fake websites and sent 2.5 million scam texts in two weeks to steal credentials and money.
- On Friday, Google filed a lawsuit against China-based cybercrime network Outsider Enterprise, which allegedly used Gemini to impersonate Google, YouTube, the Postal Service, and E-ZPass.
- During a two-week period, the network deployed 9,000 fake websites, 1 million fraudulent URLs, and 2.5 million texts to Android users, financially scamming "hundreds of thousands of victims."
- Coordinating with the FBI, T-Mobile, and Verizon, Google is actively blocking scam texts and uses AI-powered tools to intercept more than 10 billion scam messages a month.
- "This is our first coordinated effort and lawsuit and that speaks to the breadth of impact that this particular scam has," Google's general counsel DeLaine Prado told The New York Times.
- Google is advocating for updated laws including the National Strategy for Combatting Scams Act and the Strategic Task Force on Scam Prevention Act to address how AI technology can "supercharge" threats.
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Google accuses Chinese cybercrime network of using its AI
Google has filed a lawsuit against a Chinese cybercrime network, alleging the hackers are using the company’s Gemini artificial intelligence models and tools to build phishing software to rob consumers. The lawsuit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges the network created a phishing software called “Outsider” that…
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The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.
Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams
Google loves telling us all the ways people are using its generative AI products to build new things, grow businesses, and save the world. Supposedly. Of course, people are also using AI for crime. Google has announced a new legal salvo aimed at a Chinese group called Outsider Enterprise, which is allegedly responsible for a massive AI-powered scam campaign. Google says it's working with law enforcement and mobile carriers to fight back. Accordi…
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