All news with #lawsuit tag

🛡️ Google has filed suit against a group called Outsider Enterprise, accused of running phishing-as-a-service via Telegram using Gemini to create convincing fake sites. The operation reportedly offered nearly 300 scam templates impersonating Google, YouTube, and agencies like New York’s E‑ZPass. Google coordinated with carriers and used on‑device protections in Google Messages to block many malicious texts. The company hopes legal action and technical defenses will curb the campaign.

🔒 Microsoft says it disrupted a malware-signing-as-a-service operation that abused its Azure Artifact Signing platform to generate fraudulent short-lived code-signing certificates used by ransomware gangs and other cybercriminals. The actor, tracked as Fox Tempest, created over 1,000 certificates and hundreds of Azure tenants and subscriptions. Microsoft seized the signspace[.]cloud domain, took virtual machines offline, revoked certificates, and filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York.

⚖️New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Valve Corporation, alleging the company facilitated illegal gambling through randomized loot boxes in Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 on Steam. The complaint says rare virtual items can be exchanged for real money, that odds are skewed to increase value, and that the mechanics are addictive and harmful to children. James is seeking injunctive relief, disgorgement of profits, and fines.

⚖️ The trial in Leipzig has begun against the alleged ringleader of the illegal streaming portal movie2k.to, who is principally charged with commercial money laundering tied to extensive piracy operations. Prosecutors allege the site converted advertising revenues into bitcoin; nearly 50,000 BTC were recovered after the 2023 arrest, later sold for about €2.64 billion now held by the state treasury. Defense objections to parts of the indictment were dismissed, and copyright infringement claims are time-barred and not included in the proceedings.

⚖️ Google has filed a lawsuit against the scraping company SerpApi, alleging it circumvented security measures to copy and resell copyrighted content that appears in Google Search. The complaint says SerpApi cloaks its bots, rotates false crawler identities, and bombards sites with large bot networks, overriding websites' directives. Google states it follows industry-standard crawling protocols and uses legal action as a last resort to stop malicious scraping.

🔒 Google has filed a lawsuit against the scraping company SerpApi for circumventing security measures and taking copyrighted content that appears in Search results. The complaint alleges SerpApi cloaks its bots, rotates identities, and bombards websites to harvest licensed images and real‑time Search data, which it then resells for a fee. Google says it resorted to legal action after technical protections were repeatedly bypassed in order to protect publishers and rightsholders.

🔒 In October the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that listing stolen consumer data on the dark web can be sufficient to let plaintiffs proceed in data-breach lawsuits. The panel determined that dark-web publication — paywalled or not — increases the risk of fraud and is therefore materially different from mere theft. CISOs should monitor dark-web exposure and preserve evidence of publicization to assess legal and financial risk.

⚖️ A German consumer association has launched a model declaratory action against Meta after data from more than 530 million Facebook users was posted on the dark web in April 2021. The Federation of German Consumer Organisations argues Meta failed to protect user data and to inform affected people adequately. Plaintiffs seek tiered compensation of €100–€600 and the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court will first address jurisdictional and formal matters in the hearing.

⚖️ LinkedIn has filed suit against Delaware-based ProAPIs Inc. and its founder, Rehmat Alam, alleging the company created more than one million fake accounts to scrape member data using a product called iScraper API. The complaint, filed in California, accuses ProAPIs of violating LinkedIn’s terms of service and of using invalid credit cards to obtain premium access. LinkedIn seeks a permanent injunction, deletion of scraped data, and payment of damages and attorney fees.