Google’s Lighthouse lawsuit signals a new era in cybersecurity, where companies use civil litigation—including the CFAA, Lanham Act, and RICO—to dismantle phishing networks, seize malicious infrastructure, and fight hackers when criminal prosecution falls short.

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Google is suing the Smishing Triad group behind the Lighthouse phishing-as-a-service kit that has been used over the past two years to scam more than 1 million people around the world with fraudulent package delivery or EZ-Pass toll fee messages and stealing millions of credit card numbers. Google also is backing bills in Congress to address the threat.

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