Alphabet Inc.’s Google filed a lawsuit against a suspected Chinese cybercrime operation, alleging that the group used artificial intelligence to send more than 2 million text messages with fraudulent links attempting to scam cellphone users.
Known as the Outsider Enterprise, the organization targeted hundreds of thousands of people in the US in an effort to steal personal information, according to a complaint that Google filed on Friday. The group is accused of sending 2.5 million messages to Android users containing links to Outsider-generated websites over a two-week period in May.
Aided by AI, the cybercrime network coordinated through Telegram to ...
