Google is pursuing legal action against a threat actor using its Gemini AI tool to create convincing phishing websites and scam infrastructure, impacting hundreds of thousands of victims. The article describes the attack vector as AI-enhanced fraud but does not provide technical details on a specific software vulnerability, CVSS score, affected versions, or patches. No workaround is provided, as the report focuses on the legal response to the criminal misuse of a publicly available AI service.
Google has filed a lawsuit against Outsider Enterprise, a China-based cybercrime network for using AI tools, including Gemini, to build phishing websites and scam infrastructure. The company said the operation has affected “hundreds of thousands of victims,” with losses estimated in the millions of dollars. It also links the group to more than 9,000 fake websites and 1 million fraudulent URLs. “Criminals increasingly use AI to make fraud like this more convincing and harder to … More → The post Google sues China-based scammers over Gemini AI abuse appeared first on Help Net Security .