{"id":230855,"date":"2026-06-12T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/google-sues-chinese-smishing-network-accused-of-using-gemini-ai-in-phishing\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:05:55","slug":"google-sues-chinese-smishing-network-accused-of-using-gemini-ai-in-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/google-sues-chinese-smishing-network-accused-of-using-gemini-ai-in-phishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Sues Chinese Smishing Network Accused of Using Gemini AI in Phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/google-sues-chinese-smishing-network.html\">Google Sues Chinese Smishing Network Accused of Using Gemini AI in Phishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/google-sues-chinese-smishing-network.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/google-sues-chinese-smishing-network.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 14:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google is pursuing legal action against a Chinese cybercrime network using Gemini AI for distributing phishing text messages targeting Americans.<\/li>\n<li>The network developed a phishing-as-a-service software kit called Outsider, which generates fraudulent phishing pages and executes &#8216;smishing&#8217; attacks through SMS messages.<\/li>\n<li>Inside the phishing kit, victims can be misled to click on links leading to websites mimicking trusted brands to steal personal and financial information.<\/li>\n<li>Google aims to dismantle the network&#8217;s infrastructure and is working with top U.S. carriers to block spam messages.<\/li>\n<li>Over 100,000 people are estimated to have been victimized by these schemes, causing millions of dollars in losses.<\/li>\n<li>The phishing tool uses readily available templates, &#8211; The generated text has been blocked by our content filters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Sues Chinese Smishing Network Accused of Using Gemini AI in Phishing https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/google-sues-chinese-smishing-network.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg2VG_lHXgOeahfKoUs6hQ7fOmh-dK1ZGloqzAWilTU73LKJF5mBDqw4OSpU8ViE0NEI1iW4cNS5vyz4TpqoJ_aGjHYt4-qJXfmZP2a3mi8GILe4OeP7qSFKeqDWrbHyoMmf49EtaDTylhnpLvem5LCwqX2e8MRSR5rQC5cNv9qH-H_ySeUT5uYHWRLGa5P\/s1600\/gemini-phishing.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230857,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230855\/revisions\/230857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}