An AI-powered phishing kit that pumps out scam text messages now rents for less than a month of most streaming subscriptions. That's the number I can't stop thinking about after reading TechCrunch's report that Google sued an alleged Chinese cybercrime operation called Outsider Enterprise.
The group sent 2.5 million text messages in two weeks and scammed hundreds of thousands of victims. But the figure that should worry every builder and small-team founder reading this isn't the volume. It's that the tooling reportedly rents for $88 a week.
For years, running phishing at scale took real effort: building convincing fake sites, writing copy that didn't read like a bad translation, and rotating domains faster than they got blocked. According to Google's complaint, Outsider Enterprise sold all of that as a subscription product.
What they allegedly sold
Detail from the complaint
