Google Warns Over Potential Malware on Google Calendar

Ali Raza  - Expert Tech Journalist
Last updated: November 8, 2023
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Google Issues Warning Over Potential Malware on Google Calendar
  • Google has warned that hackers could potentially abuse its Google Calendar service to secretly send commands to malware.
  • The threat uses "command and control" infrastructure to communicate with the malware after it is planted into an IT system.
  • Google has urged companies to monitor their networks for suspicious activity and adopt "baselines for network traffic" to avoid infection.

Google has issued a warning about its Google Calendar service. The tech giant says hackers might abuse this service secretly and send commands to a piece of malware imprinted on a computer.

This threat deals with a “command and control” infrastructure created by hackers to communicate with malware after infecting an IT system.