{"id":1014365,"date":"2026-06-13T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014365"},"modified":"2026-06-13T11:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:07:58","slug":"9000-fake-websites-2-5-million-messages-and-more-chinese-hackers-used-gemini-ai-to-scam-people-now-google-is-suing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/13\/9000-fake-websites-2-5-million-messages-and-more-chinese-hackers-used-gemini-ai-to-scam-people-now-google-is-suing-them\/","title":{"rendered":"9,000 fake websites, 2.5 million messages and more: Chinese hackers used Gemini AI to scam people, now Google is suing them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has filed a lawsuit against an organised Chinese cybercrime network, accusing the group of weaponising Google\u2019s 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 \u201cOutsider Enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company said that the group operated out of China and coordinating through the encrypted messaging app Telegram. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has filed a lawsuit against an organised Chinese cybercrime network, accusing the group of weaponising Google\u2019s 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 \u201cOutsider Enterprise.\u201d The company said that the group operated out of China and coordinating through the encrypted messaging app Telegram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014366,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014365\/revisions\/1014366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}