How Hackers Host C2 Servers on Google Infrastructure (Google Sheets & Drive)

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Reading through my weekly security news and stumbled on a Bleepingcomputer article about using Google Workspace's Drive and Sheets (formerly G-Suite) to communicate and exfiltrate information natively Drive and Sheets. I thought this was a clever project because: You do not have to set up any particular domains, servers as most C2 frameworks do. (And many defense tools maintain a dynamic list of  malicious domains, IPs, etc). This doesn't use common C2 and red team frameworks, such as Cobalt Strike, SilverC2, or Brute Ratel. This program and traffic only interact with Google's domains (*.google.com) to make detection more difficult for tools.