Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams
Google alleged in a civil lawsuit that the China-based network Outsider Enterprise used Gemini and other AI tools to help create phishing websites for large-scale text-message scams impersonating companies and government services. Google said the network coordinated through Telegram, generated thousands of fake sites and fraudulent URLs, sent 2.5 million Android messages during a two-week period in May 2026, and financially scammed hundreds of thousands of people.
- Date it happened
- 2026-05-01
- Organisation involved
- Scammers, Outsider Enterprise, Scammers in China, Cybercriminals, Cybercriminals in China
- Product, system or model
- Gemini, Large language models, Android, YouTube, Telegram, Google Cloud, Google Drive, Code generation systems, AI-assisted phishing infrastructure, Phishing kits, Fraudulent URLs, Smishing infrastruc
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