Barracuda warns calendar invites are being used for phishing via .ics files

Barracuda researchers are warning organisations to treat calendar invitations as a phishing risk, as attackers increasingly abuse iCalendar (.ics) files to bypass controls that focus primarily on email bodies and traditional attachments. In an analysis by Associate Threat Analyst Soundharya Bharani Poomalai, Barracuda said malicious calendar events can carry phishing links, QR codes and business-themed