{"slug": "google-fires-sueball-at-alleged-chinese-phishers-over-ai-powered-fraud-ops", "title": "Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops", "summary": "Google filed a lawsuit against alleged Chinese phishing operators behind \"Outsider Enterprise,\" a Telegram-based network accused of using AI to send millions of scam texts impersonating trusted brands. The tech giant claims the group leveraged AI-powered fraud operations to target users at scale. The lawsuit aims to disrupt a sophisticated cybercrime ring that exploited generative AI to automate and amplify phishing attacks.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n## EVENTS\n\n-\n### Thriving Through Volatility: The Everpure Advantage in an Uncertain Market\n\nLearn how a consumption-based operating model provides flexibility, improves efficiency, and brings predictability to infrastructure investments.\n\n-\n### From Prompt to Exploit: How LLMs Are Changing API Attacks\n\nModern applications are API-driven, interconnected, and often over-permissioned, making them an ideal target for AI-assisted attacks.\n\n-\n### Architecting the Future: Unlocking Enterprise Data Services for Kubernetes\n\nJoin us to discover how to eliminate infrastructure silos and establish a standardized, enterprise-grade cloud-native platform.\n\n-\n### Catch the Advanced Attacks Microsoft 365 Misses with Behavioral AI Security\n\nMicrosoft 365 is the backbone of enterprise communication, and its native security filters out the known and the noisy.\n\n-\n### Accelerate your innovation\n\nThis is your technical deep-dive into the practical tools and techniques that define the next generation of resilient Dev and IT operations.\n\n-\n### Virtual Cyber Recovery Sim\n\nStep into the chaos of a live ransomware breach, test your response skills, and team up with other IT and security pros to outsmart cybercriminals\n\n-\n### Virtual Cyber Recovery Simulation\n\nRansomware attacks aren’t slowing down, and neither are we. 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