US EditionGoogle sues cybercriminal group behind E-ZPass, USPS text phishing scams
- On Wednesday, Google filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. Southern District of New York accusing 25 unnamed individuals of operating the 'Lighthouse' enterprise and seeking court orders to dismantle the platform.
- The Lighthouse platform sells phishing-as-a-service subscriptions with templates and tools enabling large-scale message delivery, while Google says one Telegram channel has over 2,500 members coordinating attacks.
- Google's filing documents show Lighthouse created 200,000 fraudulent websites in 20 days, attracted over a million potential victims, and compromised between 12.7 million and 115 million U.S. credit cards.
- The company expects the lawsuit to help stop Lighthouse schemes, with Google general counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado stating, 'While the lawsuit is one potential vector in which we can disrupt it, we also think that this type of cyber activity requires a policy-based approach.'
- Dismantling Lighthouse will require persistence from law enforcement and technology providers, while Google endorses the GUARD Act, Foreign Robocall Elimination Act, and SCAM Act to fund enforcement and target scam infrastructure.
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