Google Gemini Prompt Injection Powers Smishing Campaign
Google has filed suit against a Chinese cybercrime network operating the Outsider phishing-as-a-service kit, which exploited Gemini AI to generate fraudulent phishing pages and power large-scale SMS phishing attacks against Americans. The network used carefully framed prompts — disguised as benign programming requests — to bypass AI safety controls and produce functional credential-harvesting websites. The case illustrates the growing industrialisation of AI-assisted phishing infrastructure, with over 1.59 million malicious URLs and 100,000 victims attributed to the operation.