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Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams

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Google has filed a lawsuit against a Chinese cybercrime operation that allegedly used Gemini to automate fraudulent schemes at scale. According to Ars Technica, the fraudsters leveraged Google's AI model to generate code for scam websites, targeting hundreds of thousands of victims. The case underscores how criminal networks are rapidly adapting—using the same generative AI tools available to legitimate businesses to multiply their reach far beyond what manual operations could achieve.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/06/google-sues-chines...

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