Chalk this up under the enormous, ever-growing bucket titled “New Shit to Be Afraid Of.” Hackers have figured out a way to sneak phishing scams into the notes section of Apple Calendar invites, marking just one more normally secure, dependable app as a potential minefield of digital destruction.

How the Apple Calendar scam works

We know, by now, to be leery of unprompted text messages and emails. Together, they’re scammer central. Because we’re so busy keeping our guard up around obvious vectors for scams, hacks, viruses, and phishing attempts, we often lower our guard for more mundane, automated actions, such as calendar invites.

Who’d suspect calendar invites? They’re these semi-automated things that plop into our email inboxes, designed around an official, relatively staid format, an

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