![]() ![]() Apple automatically examines ICS attachments sent via email to your iCloud email account, whether or not it’s from a known recipient. The standard iCalendar format can package an invitation in an ICS file, a format you’re probably familiar with for adding events from other calendar services or subscribing to a school or sports calendar via a website. ![]() I’ve found scattered references as far back as August. Some users started receiving this spam weeks ago, but the distribution accelerated only around November 23 or 24. The ones I received were set as a repeating event, making the invitation show up on every day of my calendar. If you began seeing an invitation to an event in your calendar listings for Ugg Boots, Ray-Ban sunglasses, and other products, it’s because spammers took advantage of a long-available feature in iCloud that extracts invites from email and presents them as notifications in calendar apps. ![]() An apparently huge number of iOS and macOS users received calendar invite spam starting late last week.
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