Google exposes intelligence and defense employee names in VirusTotal leak

Hundreds of individuals working for defense and intelligence agencies globally have had their names and email addresses accidentally exposed by an employee at Google’s malware scanning platform VirusTotal. The online service lets organizations upload suspected malware to be checked against a range of anti-virus tools. VirusTotal then shares these files with the security community, creating

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