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18 Aug 2026, 1:41 AM	The Hacker News	3.5	Cavern C2 Uses DNS and Google Apps Script to Blend Into Legitimate Traffic Kaspersky reports new modules in the Cavern C2 framework, used by Iranian-linked group Cavern Manticore against Israeli entities. The toolkit now uses DNS A-record responses to switch between direct HTTPS and a Google Apps Script relay, and a module called HOLLOWGRAPH abuses Microsoft 365 calendar events via the Graph API as a covert two-way C2 channel, dating events to 2050 to avoid detection. Why: Unless you are building or defending SaaS APIs that could be abused as relay or dead-drop infrastructure (Google Apps Script, Microsoft Graph calendar), this has little direct impact on your work. The concrete takeaway for platform/security builders: legitimate cloud services like Google Apps Script and M365 Graph are increasingly used to hide malicious traffic, so rate-limiting and monitoring of script deployment IDs and calendar event anomalies may be worth reviewing. security c2 google-apps-script microsoft-graph nation-state

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18 Aug 2026, 1:41 AM

The Hacker News

3.5

Cavern C2 Uses DNS and Google Apps Script to Blend Into Legitimate Traffic

Kaspersky reports new modules in the Cavern C2 framework, used by Iranian-linked group Cavern Manticore against Israeli entities. The toolkit now uses DNS A-record responses to switch between direct HTTPS and a Google Apps Script relay, and a module called HOLLOWGRAPH abuses Microsoft 365 calendar events via the Graph API as a covert two-way C2 channel, dating events to 2050 to avoid detection.

Why: Unless you are building or defending SaaS APIs that could be abused as relay or dead-drop infrastructure (Google Apps Script, Microsoft Graph calendar), this has little direct impact on your work. The concrete takeaway for platform/security builders: legitimate cloud services like Google Apps Script and M365 Graph are increasingly used to hide malicious traffic, so rate-limiting and monitoring of script deployment IDs and calendar event anomalies may be worth reviewing.