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Google Sues to Disrupt Chinese SMS Phishing Triad

ID: 15ace29a-661b-5835-99b3-2e4c61f14e81

STIX ID: report--15ace29a-661b-5835-99b3-2e4c61f14e81

Feed Name: Krebs on Security

Threat Score
78/100

Date Published: 2025-11-13

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: BrianKrebs

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Google has sued unnamed operators of "Lighthouse," a China-based phishing-as-a-service in the Smishing Triad that allegedly enabled mass smishing campaigns and the theft of payment cards from over one million victims across 120 countries by enrolling stolen cards into Apple/Google Wallets; the report outlines the service's templates, business roles, hosting (Tencent/Alibaba), operational scale (tens of thousands of domains), and potential legal disruption.

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