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FBI And Google Crush AI Scam Ring Behind 1.59 Million Phishing URLs

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SMS spam has evolved far beyond the era of low-effort annoyances, transforming into a massive, industrialized ecosystem. Today, it’s a highly calculated numbers game consisting of fake package notifications, urgent bank alerts, and non-existent security breaches designed to prey on everyday users. While these text alerts may appear random and disconnected on your phone, a look under the hood reveals a highly coordinated, centralized infrastructure. Massive criminal networks are now heavily leveraging generative AI to automate, polish, and deploy these phishing campaigns at an unprecedented scale.Google and the FBI just brought a hammer down on it. In a coordinated push,…

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