• Google has filed a civil suit against individuals involved in the Lighthouse phishing operation. • Lighthouse facilitates text scams that Google says have impacted more than a million individuals worldwide. • The suit may not lead to legal consequences for those individuals, who are believed to be living in China, but could still weaken Lighthouse.

Google is suing dozens of people it asserts are involved in a large-scale phishing operation. Yesterday, Google filed a civil suit in New York aimed at dismantling an organization called Lighthouse, a “phishing-as-a-service” operation that Google says has been used to scam more than a million people all over the world.

In a blog post, Google details the Lighthouse operation: The kit generates text message-based phishing (or “smishing”) a

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