9,000 fake websites, 2.5 million messages and more: Chinese hackers used Gemini AI to scam people, now Google is suing them

Google has filed a lawsuit against an organised Chinese cybercrime network, accusing the group of weaponising Google’s own artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Gemini, to mass-produce and spread convincing financial scams to hundreds of thousands of smartphone users. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, targets a sophisticated network known as the “Outsider Enterprise.”

The company said that the group operated out of China and coordinating through the encrypted messaging app Telegram.