{"id":973748,"date":"2025-11-13T11:47:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973748"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:47:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:17:41","slug":"google-is-very-upset-and-the-reason-is-china-based-company-that-it-says-has-scammed-millions-of-americans-many-times-using-googles-name-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/13\/google-is-very-upset-and-the-reason-is-china-based-company-that-it-says-has-scammed-millions-of-americans-many-times-using-googles-name-logo\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is &#8216;very upset&#8217; and the reason is China-based company that it says has scammed millions of Americans; many times &#8216;using&#8217; Google&#8217;s name, logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has filed a landmark lawsuit to dismantle what it describes as a vast, China-based cybercriminal operation responsible for phishing attacks that have targeted millions of people worldwide. In a complaint filed, the tech giant accused a \u201ccybercriminal group in China\u201d of running a sprawling enterprise called Lighthouse, which sells ready-made \u201cphishing for dummies\u201d kits that enable scammers with little technical expertise to carry out large-scale fraud campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google, the Lighthouse network provides subscription-based phishing software\u2014available on weekly, monthly, annual, or even lifetime plans\u2014complete with hundreds of fake website templates, domain setup tools, and payment features designed to mimic legitimate platforms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has filed a landmark lawsuit to dismantle what it describes as a vast, China-based cybercriminal operation responsible for phishing attacks that have targeted millions of people worldwide. In a complaint filed, the tech giant accused a \u201ccybercriminal group in China\u201d of running a sprawling enterprise called Lighthouse, which sells ready-made \u201cphishing for dummies\u201d kits that enable scammers with little technical expertise to carry out large-scale fraud campaigns. According to Google, the Lighthouse network provides subscription-based phishing software\u2014available on weekly, monthly, annual, or even lifetime plans\u2014complete with hundreds of fake website templates, domain setup tools, and payment features designed to [&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-973748","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\/973748","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=973748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}