The day after Google filed a lawsuit to end text scams primarily targeting Americans, the criminal network behind the phishing scams was “disrupted,” a Google spokesperson told Ars.

According to messages that the “ringleader” of the so-called “Lighthouse enterprise” posted on his Telegram channel, the phishing gang’s cloud server was “blocked due to malicious complaints.”

“We will restore it as soon as possible!” the leader posted on the channel—which Google’s lawsuit noted helps over 2,500 members coordinate phishing attacks that have resulted in losses of “over a billion dollars.”

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Ashley Belanger

Original Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/google-claims-win-for-everyone-as-text-scammers-lost-their-cloud-server/
Originally Posted: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:10:13 +0000