Comment on Google catches Beijing spies using Sheets to spread espionage across 4 continents
treadful@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
I was confused at first, thinking that somehow Sheets’ systems were compromised.
The C-based backdoor uses Google Sheets as its C2 platform, can execute shell commands, and can upload and download files.
Instead, Sheets is just the command and control relay.
Which is pretty weird, though.
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 6 days ago
I dunno, it’s very innocuous-looking from a traffic inspection standpoint, while also being a resilient way of storing an equally-innocuous-looking CSV. Kinda clever, if you ask me.