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.
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10:26 AM PDT · June 12, 2026
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Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation.
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Google is suing an alleged criminal operation that it says used AI tools to power a sprawling phishing enterprise.
Google sued Outsider operators for allegedly using Gemini AI to create phishing pages tied to 1.59M URLs and 100K+ victims.
