{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0135",
 "incident_id": "2026-05-google-outsider-enterprise-gemini-phishing-lawsuit",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-06-12",
 "date_occurred": "2026-05",
 "title": "Google sued the China-based Outsider Enterprise network for using Gemini to mass-produce phishing sites behind 2.5 million scam text messages",
 "class": "in_the_wild",
 "attack_surface": "other",
 "initial_vector": "policy_violating_use",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "site_generation",
  "content_generation",
  "brand_impersonation_at_scale"
 ],
 "target_product": "Gemini",
 "target_vendor": "Google (abused); US consumers (victims)",
 "autonomy_level": "assistant",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "financial_loss",
  "ecosystem_abuse"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "thousands of fake sites impersonating Google, YouTube, USPS and E-ZPass; 2.5 million Android messages in a two-week May 2026 window; hundreds of thousands of people scammed",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI03",
   "ASI09"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "scaled_generation",
   "brand_impersonation",
   "legal_action",
   "cross_industry_takedown",
   "toolkit_sharing"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "Gemini usage policy enforcement",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "civil suit in SDNY seeking injunction; first coordinated takedown with the FBI and AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://cn.nytimes.com/technology/20260615/google-lawsuit-china-ai-scams/zh-hant/",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1534"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "The Chinese group used Gemini, Google's A.I. system, to create hundreds of fake websites mimicking companies like Google and YouTube and government operations like the Postal Service and New York's E-ZPass service for highway tolls, the lawsuit said.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Notable as remedy rather than technique: the provider went to court and coordinated with the FBI and the carriers, because account termination alone does not reach a network that shares AI toolkits over Telegram. Google stated AI-driven scams are growing faster than other phishing categories. Allegations from a filed complaint, not proven findings. AI Incident Database incident 1534.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "product_misuse",
  "legal_ip",
  "brand_trust"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Unclassified",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "human_acted_on_output",
 "agency_debatable": true,
 "agency_reason": "Gemini generated the phishing sites; the network sent 2.5M scam texts",
 "vector_family": "misuse",
 "vector_detail": "policy_violating_use",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "abuse_detection"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1534
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI03",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "google",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "human_manipulation",
 "eai_domain": "agent_behaviour",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "impact rule: human_manipulation",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI03 (signal=identity); ASI09 (eai_category=human_manipulation)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}