{"id":6106,"date":"2025-11-12T17:13:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/google-sues-china-based-hackers-behind-1-billion-lighthouse-phishing-platform\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:13:33","slug":"google-sues-china-based-hackers-behind-1-billion-lighthouse-phishing-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/google-sues-china-based-hackers-behind-1-billion-lighthouse-phishing-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Google Sues China-Based Hackers Behind $1 Billion Lighthouse Phishing Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bGoogle has filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) against China-based hackers who are behind a massive Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform called Lighthouse that has ensnared over 1 million users across 120 countries.<br \/>\nThe PhaaS kit is used to conduct large-scale SMS phishing attacks that exploit trusted brands like E-ZPass and USPS to\u00a0Google has filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) against China-based hackers who are behind a massive Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform called Lighthouse that has ensnared over 1 million users across 120 countries.<br \/>\nThe PhaaS kit is used to conduct large-scale SMS phishing attacks that exploit trusted brands like E-ZPass and USPS to\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bGoogle has filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) against China-based hackers who are behind a massive Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform called Lighthouse that has ensnared over 1 million users across 120 countries. The PhaaS kit is used to conduct large-scale SMS phishing attacks that exploit&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/google-sues-china-based-hackers-behind-1-billion-lighthouse-phishing-platform\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u00a0Google Sues China-Based Hackers Behind $1 Billion Lighthouse Phishing Platform<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}