Google files a lawsuit against a China-based cybercrime network, identified in reporting as “Outsider Enterprise,” alleging it used Google’s Gemini AI to automate and scale fraudulent activity. According to multiple outlets, the operation involved creating large numbers of fake websites and generating high volumes of scam messages intended to target victims at scale. Reports say the group used Gemini-coded or Gemini-assisted methods to produce phishing and scam infrastructure, including thousands of fraudulent web properties. One account cites more than 9,000 fake websites and more than 1 million related fraudulent URLs, along with millions of messages, including mass text campaigns. Other coverage describes the targeting as reaching hundreds of thousands of people and causing financial losses that reporting characterizes in the millions of dollars.
Google seeks legal action to stop the conduct and, in some reporting, to help address what it describes as growing use of AI in cybercrime. The lawsuit is presented as a coordinated response involving law enforcement and telecommunications carriers, as described by some sources. The allegations are attributed to Google and have not been adjudicated.
