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FBI and Google Take Down AI-Abusing Phishing Platform Outsider

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The FBI's Cleveland field office, together with Google and Lumen Technologies' Black Lotus Labs, carried out a joint operation dubbed "Operation Ghost Hook" in mid-June 2026 to dismantle the infrastructure of "Outsider," a China-based phishing-for-hire service. The platform, which relied on more than one million malicious URLs, is blamed for some $1.9 billion in losses.

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