Google sues scammers peddling fake malware-riddled Bard chatbot download

Google has sued three scammers for offering a fake download of its Bard AI chatbot that contained malware capable of stealing credentials for small business' social media accounts. The web giant's lawsuit [PDF], filed on Monday in a San Jose federal district court against defendants listed as "DOES 1-3", alleges the trio …

[Sora2566]

"The web giant also wants damages, including all the money made from the scam."

Google: Nobody makes money off the gullibility of our users but us!

[Falmari]

"The web giant also wants damages, including all the money made from the scam."

No real change there then, just Google want to profit from others crimes not just their own.

The money made from the scam would be the proceeds of crime.

Is it not a crime to knowingly receive monies obtained illegally?

[RM Myers]

"... threatens to tarnish Google's trusted brand"

Okay, Google must have another brand somewhere that.... Oh never mind. This is, to quote an old idiom, like shooting fish in a barrel. If the Googlers want to pretend that they are trusted by anyone, who am I to question their delusions.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "... threatens to tarnish Google's trusted brand"

Why should anyone with at least two functioning brain cells trust google with anything, is beyond me. They are daylight robbers. If you can't see that they are stealing your data then you should not be anywhere near a computer.

If you do allow them to infect your life then don't complain about the consequences. You were warned!

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "... threatens to tarnish Google's trusted brand"

every little helps, said the Google accountants...

[lglethal]

Simple way to shut down (or at least significantly reduce) the false take downs. Require full copies of legal documents showing who you are before any take down. As well as a verified bank account (maybe take $1 to prove the account is real and assigned to the direct person). Any fake claims are then charged at $1000 per claim.

Identity theft may make this a problem, but that takes the level of attack to a whole new level, which most of these scum are not really interested in...

[katrinab]

I agree, but I think that would require a change in the law.

[Tubz]

Googles doesn't need more competition, they like to keep it a small club of monopolists alongside FB,M$ and AZN.

[steviebuk]

But

Does fuck all with all the fake adverts on YouTube and/or all the scam kit being sold on those adverts. They give no shits in that regard as they still get paid for the adverts.

[katrinab]

Re: But

They should care though. Because people assume that everything advertised on there is a scam, so legitimate advertisers, the ones with the really big advertising budgets, get a lower response rate and therefore won't pay as much, or will avoid it altogether.

[steviebuk]

Re: But

When I reported one a while ago and was actually getting responds the excuse was "Its because of AdSense not us" ignoring the fact they fucking own adsense.

[Gene Cash]

ube

"Defendants have weaponized copyright law's notice-and-takedown process and used it not for its intended purpose of expeditiously removing infringing content, but instead to have the legitimate content of their competitors removed based on false allegations"

On YouTube, that's just another Tuesday...

[steviebuk]

Re: ube

Its ironic because I put a vid up on my YouTube channel about a shady parking monitor company, about their piss poor security on their website. A year later I got hit with a dmca on that video by that shitty car company. They were abusing the copyright system to get the vid removed. So I did a blog post about their lies and put it on Odysee instead were it has stayed.

Parkshield Group are the shady shits.