{"id":25380,"date":"2026-10-11T08:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T06:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/11\/you-have-a-meeting-the-calendar-phishing-scam-growing-exponentially\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T08:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T06:37:14","slug":"you-have-a-meeting-the-calendar-phishing-scam-growing-exponentially","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/11\/you-have-a-meeting-the-calendar-phishing-scam-growing-exponentially\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You have a meeting\u2019: the calendar phishing scam growing exponentially"},"content":{"rendered":"

Appointment or renewal reminder appears in victims\u2019 calendar to lure them into logging in to fake Google, Microsoft or PayPal page<\/p>\n

You\u2019re preparing for the week ahead and take a look at your Google calendar. There\u2019s an entry for a meeting that you must have completely forgotten. The note that pops up when you click on it says you\u2019ll be reviewing a project and includes a link to more details. Confused, you follow it to find out more; the website you land on asks for logon details, and you provide them.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this was not a failure of your memory but a calendar phishing scam. You have handed your name and password to fraudsters who will sell it on in a batch with other people\u2019s details, use it to break into your work email, or to persuade you that they are contacting you from your bank<\/a>, or another institution.<\/p>\n

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\nAppointment or renewal reminder appears in victims\u2019 calendar to lure them into logging in to fake Google, Microsoft or PayPal page
\nYou\u2019re preparing for the week ahead and take a look at your Google calendar. There\u2019s an entry for a meeting that you must have completely forgotten. The note that pops up when you click on it says you\u2019ll be reviewing a project and includes a link to more details. Confused, you follow it to find out more; the website you land on asks for logon details, and you provide them.
\nUnfortunately, this was not a failure of your memory but a calendar phishing scam. You have handed your name and password to fraudsters who will sell it on in a batch with other people\u2019s details, use it to break into your work email, or to persuade you that they are contacting you from your bank, or another institution. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Appointment or renewal reminder appears in victims\u2019 calendar to lure them into logging in to fake Google, Microsoft or PayPal page You\u2019re preparing for the week ahead and take a look at your Google calendar. There\u2019s an entry for a meeting that you must have completely forgotten. The note that pops up when you click …<\/p>\n

\u2018You have a meeting\u2019: the calendar phishing scam growing exponentially<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}