Google sues Chinese cybercrime network Outsider Enterprise for Gemini-powered SMS phishing

Google filed suit against Outsider Enterprise, a Telegram-based cybercrime operation that used Gemini AI to automate phishing scams targeting Android users. According to Google's legal filing, the group sent 2.5 million fraudulent text messages over a two-week period in May 2026, deployed 9,000 fake websites and 1 million fraudulent domains, and caused losses estimated in the millions across hundreds of thousands of victims. The operation offered phishing-as-a-service through Telegram with nearly 300 scam templates.