Google says it's disrupted a super-serious 'global espionage campaign' that uses *checks notes* Google Sheets to covertly intercept telecoms data
Google Sheets is perhaps my most disliked member of the Google Workplace suite. It's not that it's bad at what it does, more that it's a deathly-dull spreadsheet editor that I loathe having to stare at for more than five minutes.
But lo and indeed behold, because Google says it's caught Sheets being used in a super-exciting act of global espionage! Okay, exciting was the wrong word. Concerning, that's what I was going for.
According to Google's most recent Threat Intelligence blog post...