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Google filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a foreign cybercriminal group behind a massive SMS phishing , or "smishing," operation.

Dubbed by some cyber researchers as the "Smishing Triad," the organization, which Google said is largely based out of China, uses a phishing-as-a-service kit named "Lighthouse" to create and deploy attacks using fraudulent texts .

The crime group has amassed more than a million victims across 120 countries, Google said in a release.

"They were preying on users' trust in reputable brands such as E-ZPass , the U.S. Postal Service , and even us as Google," Google general counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado told CNBC. "The 'Lighthouse' enterprise or software creates a bunch of tem

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