Google sues China-based scammers over Gemini AI abuse
2026-06-12T14:51:51Z•0ff0eb43b3276c3300a9e24b8e783762a1f66ee8c499d5ce5b3bff199b41a764
CVE-2026-50751active-exploitationai-abuseai-governanceai-sovereigntyaudia6authentication-bypassavast-onecheck-pointcomcast-securityedgecrypto-launderingdata-centersdomain-registrationseuropolgeminigoogle-lawsuitisomalicious-domainsnistphishingproof-of-conceptransomwaretargeted-phishingvpnzerofox
What happened
This collection of Help Net Security items covers major developments on 2026-06-12: Google filed suit against China-based cybercriminal network Outsider Enterprise for abusing AI (including Gemini) to build phishing infrastructure that affected “hundreds of thousands” of victims and spawned >9,000 fake sites and ~1M fraudulent URLs. WatchTowr published a technical analysis and detection artefacts for CVE-2026-50751, an authentication-bypass in Check Point Remote Access/Mobile Access VPN that was confirmed as actively exploited and patched by Check Point on 2026-06-08 (PoC now public). Other te
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