{"id":973668,"date":"2025-11-13T10:49:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973668"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:19:31","slug":"google-warns-about-global-smishing-ring-stealing-millions-via-text-scams-files-lawsuit-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/13\/google-warns-about-global-smishing-ring-stealing-millions-via-text-scams-files-lawsuit-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Google warns about global \u2018smishing\u2019 ring stealing millions via text scams, files lawsuit in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google on Wednesday announced that it has filed a lawsuit against a foreign cybercriminal organisation behind a series of SMS phishing attacks, or \u201csmishing\u201d. In a blog post, the tech giant said that the bad actors built a phishing-as-a-service operation called \u201cLighthouse\u201d to generate and deploy large-scale attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Google also warned that these attacks exploit established brands like E-Z Pass to steal people\u2019s financial information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google on Wednesday announced that it has filed a lawsuit against a foreign cybercriminal organisation behind a series of SMS phishing attacks, or \u201csmishing\u201d. In a blog post, the tech giant said that the bad actors built a phishing-as-a-service operation called \u201cLighthouse\u201d to generate and deploy large-scale attacks. Google also warned that these attacks exploit established brands like E-Z Pass to steal people\u2019s financial information.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973668","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=973668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}