Google 正提起诉讼，要求瓦解一个据称由 AI 驱动的大规模网络犯罪行动背后的基础设施。
周五，这家科技巨头宣布对据称名为 Outsider Enterprise 的中国网络犯罪网络提起诉讼。Google 称，该网络在其行动中利用 AI 发送冒充 Google 及其他品牌的诈骗短信，以窃取密码和信用卡号。
Outsider Enterprise 通过金融诈骗手段骗取了“数十万名受害者”，损失“估计达数百万”。据 Google 称，该团伙部署了 9,000 个虚假网站、一百万个欺诈性网络域名，并在两周内向 Android 用户发送了 250 万条短信。
该公司表示：“今年 5 月，Android 用户仅在两周内就标记了 55,000 条垃圾短信——这意味着每分钟超过两起短信垃圾投诉。”
Google 表示，其使用“AI 驱动的工具来对抗 AI 驱动的诈骗”，这使该公司能够检测诈骗并向用户发出可疑来电和短信的警报，从而每月拦截超过 100 亿条诈骗信息。
该公司表示，它一直在与 AT&T、T-Mobile 和 Verizon 合作拦截诈骗短信，并表示正在与 FBI 协调。
一位 FBI 发言人告诉 TechCrunch，该局与 Google 和 Lumen 的 Black Lotus Labs 协调，查封了网络犯罪分子使用的多个域名，以及用于测试该行动钓鱼服务的 Shopify 店铺和账户。
发言人表示，自 2023 年 7 月以来，Outsider Enterprise 的网络钓鱼平台使网络犯罪分子得以窃取“至少估计 3,870,000 张被盗信用卡，以及相应估计 19 亿美元的损失。”
深入 Outsider Enterprise
在作为该诉讼一部分提交的起诉书中，Google 列出了其针对参与 Outsider Enterprise 运营的人员所收集的证据，该公司称这些人是身份不明的境外网络犯罪分子。根据起诉书，该团伙“构建、维护并使用一套交钥匙式的在线软件套件，使犯罪分子无论技术水平如何，都能发布旨在掠夺受害者并中饱私囊的欺诈网站。”
Google 表示，这款名为 Outsider 的“傻瓜式网络钓鱼”软件每周收费 88 美元或每月 200 美元，允许运营者借助 AI 平台（包括 Google 自家的 Gemini）创建虚假网站。这些虚假网站冒充多种服务和公司，例如电信运营商、金融机构、政府机构和零售商。
为了引诱人们访问这些虚假网站，网络犯罪分子彼此协作，向受害者发送恶意短信，或购买广告。其共同目标是窃取密码及相应的多因素验证码以及财务信息，诈骗者可以通过接收受害者在虚假网站中输入的数据来实现这一点，这些信息会通过 Outsider 的平台实时传输。
Google 写道：“Outsider 软件的部分吸引力在于，技术专长有限的人——就像 Enterprise 的许多成员一样——可以轻松购买该软件、执行各种钓鱼攻击，并在购买后结识 Enterprise 中精通其他领域的成员。”这里指的是 Telegram 频道，网络犯罪分子可以在这些频道中协作、互相培训、讨论策略并开发钓鱼攻击。“Enterprise 公然在 Telegram 上通过公开且基本未加密的讨论来协调其行动。”
据 Google 称，Outsider 平台据称向网络犯罪分子提供“超过 290 个模仿合法网站的预置模板”，可在“几分钟内”生成真实网站的复制品，还提供如何“将 AI 生成的代码武器化”的指南，以及用于跟踪钓鱼活动进展的仪表盘。这些网络犯罪分子据称利用 Google Drive 和 Google Cloud 基础设施来托管钓鱼网站。
Google 在诉状中写道：“Outsider 软件已被用于创建超过一百万个钓鱼网站，从无辜受害者手中骗取数百万美元。”
为了说明 Outsider Enterprise 的运营规模，Google 表示，在从 2025 年 11 月 14 日到 2026 年 4 月 14 日的五个月期间，该公司检测到超过 159 万个与其相关的 URL。
Google 表示，Outsider Enterprise 行动由多个网络犯罪团伙组成：有的负责开发和维护钓鱼软件及网站模板；有的提供从公开记录、社交媒体和数据泄露中整理出的目标名单；还有一个“垃圾信息群组”，负责提供批量发送诈骗短信的工具以及相关基础设施，包括手机阵列、SIM 卡和调制解调器；此外还有负责将窃取的凭证变现并洗白赃款的团伙。
据 Google 称，这些网络犯罪分子已窃取“至少 36,000 张由 95 个国家的金融机构发行的支付卡”。
该公司指控 Outsider Enterprise 背后的相关人员冒充 Google 及其品牌、侵犯其版权、从事敲诈勒索活动、实施电信欺诈以及虚假广告。通过这起诉讼，Google 寻求补偿性和惩罚性损害赔偿，并请求法院下令阻止这些犯罪分子继续开展其活动。
本报道最初于太平洋夏令时间上午 10:26 发布，此后已根据 Google 诉状中的新信息以及 FBI 的评论进行了更新。
Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation.
On Friday, the tech giant announced a lawsuit against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise, which Google says uses AI in its campaigns to send scam text messages impersonating Google and other brands to steal passwords and credit card numbers.
Outsider Enterprise has financially scammed “hundreds of thousands of victims” with losses “estimated in the millions.” The group deployed 9,000 fake websites, one million fraudulent web domains, and 2.5 million texts sent to Android users in a two-week period, according to Google.
The company said, “55,000 spam texts were flagged by Android users in just two weeks this past May — that’s more than two text spam complaints a minute.”
Google said it uses “AI-powered tools to fight AI-powered scams,” which enable the company to detect scams and alert users of suspicious calls and text messages, leading to the interception of more than 10 billion scam messages a month.
The company said it has been collaborating with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon to block the scam text messages, and said it is coordinating with the FBI.
An FBI spokesperson told TechCrunch that the bureau, in coordination with Google and Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, seized several domains used by the cybercriminals, as well as Shopify storefronts and accounts used to test the operation’s phishing service.
The spokesperson said that since July 2023, Outsider Enterprise’s phishing platform enabled cybercriminals to steal “at least an estimated 3,870,000 stolen credit cards and a corresponding estimated $1.9B in losses.”
Inside Outsider Enterprise
In its complaint filed as part of the lawsuit, Google laid out the evidence it gathered against people involved in the Outsider Enterprise operations, whom the company said are foreign-based cybercriminals whose real identities are unknown. This group “built, maintains, and uses a turn-key, online software suite that enables criminals, regardless of technical skill, to publish fraudulent websites designed to rob victims and enrich themselves,” according to the complaint.
Google said this “phishing-for-dummies” software called Outsider, which costs $88 per week or $200 per month, allows operators to create fake websites with the help of AI platforms, including Google’s own Gemini. The fake sites impersonate several services and companies, such as telecom providers, financial institutions, government agencies, and retailers.
To lure people to the fake websites, the cybercriminals collaborate with one another to send victims malicious text messages, or purchase ads. The common goal is to steal passwords and corresponding multi-factor codes as well as financial information, which the scammers can do by receiving the data that victims input into the fake websites, with the information being transmitted through Outsider’s platform in real time.
“Part of the Outsider software’s appeal is the ease with which someone with limited technical expertise — like many members of the Enterprise— can purchase the software, execute various phishing attacks, and, upon purchase, meet other members of the Enterprise who are proficient in other areas,” Google wrote, referring to Telegram channels where the cybercriminals can collaborate, train each other, discuss strategies, and develop phishing attacks. “The Enterprise brazenly coordinates its efforts in open and largely uncoded discussions on Telegram.”
According to Google, the Outsider platform allegedly offers cybercriminals “more than 290 pre-built templates that mimic the legitimate websites” that generate replicas of real websites “in minutes,” along with guides on how to “weaponize AI-generated code,” as well as a dashboard to track progress of phishing campaigns. The cybercriminals have allegedly used Google Drive and Google Cloud infrastructure to host the phishing websites.
“The Outsider software has been used to create over a million phishing websites to swindle innocent victims out of millions of dollars,” Google wrote in the complaint.
To give an idea of the scale of Outsider Enterprise’s operation, Google said that over a five-month period, from November 14, 2025 to April 14, 2026, the company detected more than 1.59 million URLs connected to it.
Google said the Outsider Enterprise operation is made up of several groups of cybercriminals: those who develop and maintain the phishing software and website templates; those who supply lists of targets curated from public records, social media, and data breaches; a “spammer group” that provides tools and the infrastructure to send scam texts in bulk, which includes smartphone banks, SIM cards, and modems; and those who monetize the stolen credentials and launder the stolen money.
The cybercriminals have stolen “at least 36,000 payment cards issued by financial institutions in 95 countries,” according to Google.
The company accused the people behind Outsider Enterprise of impersonating Google and its brands, of infringing its copyright, of racketeering activities, of committing wire fraud, and false advertising. With the lawsuit, Google is seeking compensatory and punitive damages, and an order to stop the criminals from carrying out their activities.
This story was originally published at 10:26 a.m. PDT and has since been updated with new information from Google’s complaint, and the FBI’s comment.