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Even Google Calendar isn't safe from hackers any more (www.techradar.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Salamendacious@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Hackers have reportedly found a way to use the Google Calendar as command & control (C2) infrastructure which could create quite a few headaches in the cybersecurity community.

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[–] jimbolauski@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are encoding commands in calendar events there is not a vulnerability in Google calendar. After your device is compromised its commanded to subscribe to a calendar. Those events have commands. Since checking your calendar is a normal event unlike connecting to a nefarious server it becomes more difficult to discover.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Is it? Everything is in their cloud. You’d think since they have all the data they might check it for malicious activity. I guess that’s not much of a priority for them because it’s hard to tell what’s malicious and what’s “Google”