Google sues Chinese cybercrime group for AI-powered SMS scam affecting hundreds of thousands

According to TechCrunch, Google filed a lawsuit against a Chinese cybercrime group called Outsider Enterprise that deployed AI to send 2.5 million text messages over two weeks, scamming hundreds of thousands of victims. The operation demonstrates mature AI-powered fraud infrastructure and represents one of the first major legal actions by a U.S. tech company against a foreign group for large-scale AI-assisted fraud.