Nigerian scammers have launched a new spam campaign sending fake Google Calendar meeting invitations in an attack targeted towards corporate users, security vendor BitDefender warned today. As the hook to dupe users into opening the message, the emails are personalised and bypass URL filtering with a different link sent to each recipient.

"This is a new and untried social engineering approach,” said BitDefender CTO, Bogdan Dumitru. “The fact that these things are being spammed in huge numbers is a bit odd - usually there is a testing phase, to evaluate the response rate," siad Dumitru.
Fake Google Calender meeting invitations used in new spam attack - Security - iTnews Australia

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