Google Calendar scam adds malicious links to your schedule

Scammers are phishing in a new pond. 

As identified by Kapersky Labs in a report from Wired, bad actors are taking advantage of a Google Calendar setting that lets anyone place event invites in another user's calendar. 

In the scam, an event will pop up in a user's Google Calendar; the description will invite them to take a survey or claim a cash reward. That includes a link, prompting users to enter personal and financial information. 

Google Calendar's architecture unfortunately gives these schemes the ring of legitimacy, since simply having an event on your calendar could trigger notifications about it. Users have to be diligent about knowing whether they or someone they know has placed the event on the calendar, or if it's from an unknown source. Read more...