Google broke up an international spy ring using… Sheets

Such is the case with Google Sheets. Google reports that it disrupted a wide-ranging cyberattack that used the web app as a backdoor to spy on users. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, working with ...

Google says it's disrupted a super-serious 'global espionage campaign' that uses *checks notes* Google Sheets to covertly intercept telecoms data

Anyway, the over-simplified version goes as thus: A UNC2814 co-opted Google Sheet file is used to connect to a Google Service Account for API authentication, before wiping itself and allowing its ...