The FBI and Google have announced the takedown of Outsider Enterprise, a large phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform that caused billions of dollars in losses.
Operating out of China and coordinated through Telegram, the network distributed phishing kits that allowed threat actors to impersonate known brands in campaigns carried out over SMS messages.
According to Google, hundreds of thousands of people fell victim to attacks carried out by threat actors associated with Outsider Enterprise.
More than 2.5 million messages containing links to websites generated through the platform were sent to Android users over a two-week window in May.
The internet giant says it has identified 9,000 fake websites and more than 1 million URLs associated with Outsider Enterprise.
