Is your digital calendar putting you at risk?

New research from Bitsight finds that events synced in your digital calendar could be exposing you to phishing, malware and AI jailbreak attacks. Bitsight’s TRACE research team discovered more than 390 abandoned domains related to iCal sync requests for subscribed calendars, potentially putting around four million devices at risk. Specifically, the report reveals that malicious actors are exploiting the high level of trust users place in their digital calendars. By setting up dedicated infrastructure and leveraging abandoned domains, they trick users into subscribing to notifications, then use the calendar sync function to push events containing malicious links and attachments directly… [Continue Reading]