Alphabet‘s Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) has filed a lawsuit against a Chinese cybercriminal network for orchestrating extensive text-message phishing attacks.

Google’s Lawsuit Under RICO Act

The search-engine giant has accused a network of Chinese cybercriminals of orchestrating large-scale text-message phishing attacks. The network, known as “Lighthouse,” is alleged to have compromised between 15 million and 100 million potential credit cards in the U.S., Google’s general counsel, Halimah DeLaine Prado, told CBS News on Wednesday.

The company has filed the first-of-its-kind lawsuit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act targeting cybercriminals—a law traditionally used to take down organized crime networks. The company says more than 100 fake websites have been impersonating Google's brand to trick users into ...