A calendar invite is one of the most routine messages in the modern workplace. It lands in the inbox, asks for a few seconds of attention, and is rarely questioned. Attackers know this, and they are now using fake meeting invitations to steal Microsoft account credentials. We have identified several large-scale phishing campaigns that abuse fake calendar invites to harvest credentials. Some arrive as an .ics attachment (example 1). The file is valid calendar data, so the attack abuses calendar features and user trust without exploiting a software vulnerability. Others use a link that appears to lead to a different […]
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