Incident #1534
Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams
Description
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.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- scammers
- outsider-enterprise
- scammers-in-china
- cybercriminals
- cybercriminals-in-china
Alleged Developers
- google-deepmind
- large-language-model-developers
Harmed Parties
- google-users
- android-users
- consumers
- e-zpass
- united-states-postal-service
- youtube