{"id":973744,"date":"2025-11-13T11:46:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973744"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:16:04","slug":"google-sues-china-based-hacking-group-says-misusing-big-brands-including-e-zpass-google-and-others-to-trap-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/13\/google-sues-china-based-hacking-group-says-misusing-big-brands-including-e-zpass-google-and-others-to-trap-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Google sues China-based hacking group; says misusing big brands including E-ZPass, Google and others to &#8216;trap&#8217; users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has filed a new lawsuit against a foreign cybercriminal organisation. The tech giant claims that the hacker group, based primarily in China, has been conducting a major SMS phishing, or &#8220;smishing,&#8221; operation in the US. The cybercrime group, which some cyber researchers call the &#8220;Smishing Triad,&#8221; uses a phishing-as-a-service kit named &#8220;Lighthouse&#8221; to create and launch attacks through fraudulent text messages. The crime group has reportedly amassed over a million victims across 120 countries, according to Google. Explaining the group\u2019s tactics to CNBC, Google lawyer Halimah DeLaine Prado said: \u201cThey were preying on users\u2019 trust in reputable brands such as E-ZPass, the US Postal Service, and even us as Google.\u201d She added that the Lighthouse software \u201ccreates a bunch of templates in which you create fake websites to pull users\u2019 information.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has filed a new lawsuit against a foreign cybercriminal organisation. The tech giant claims that the hacker group, based primarily in China, has been conducting a major SMS phishing, or &#8220;smishing,&#8221; operation in the US. The cybercrime group, which some cyber researchers call the &#8220;Smishing Triad,&#8221; uses a phishing-as-a-service kit named &#8220;Lighthouse&#8221; to create and launch attacks through fraudulent text messages. The crime group has reportedly amassed over a million victims across 120 countries, according to Google. Explaining the group\u2019s tactics to CNBC, Google lawyer Halimah DeLaine Prado said: \u201cThey were preying on users\u2019 trust in reputable brands such [&hellip;]<\/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-973744","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\/973744","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=973744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}