Where is this intrusive calendar notification coming from?!

[696040]

I'm really concerned where this notification is coming from? It's happened twice now.

I have checked my emails and there's no sunglasses spam sitting in my box. Why is this notification coming up?! I have Kaspersky on my Mac and firewall enabled.

 

[raymond7]

To me it seems like iCloud addresses got hacked or something. I get these spam invitations only on my iCloud account.

Therefore i have turned icloud completely off, since I use gmail account for the calendar

 

[696040]

To me it seems like iCloud addresses got hacked or something. I get these spam invitations only on my iCloud account.

Therefore i have turned icloud completely off, since I use gmail account for the calendar

Are spammers able to send notifications straight to iCloud then? I have an iCloud email account and use my calendar quite a lot so it's such a pain. I feel like my Mac privacy is being compromised as the notification is so intrusive and I have now idea how it does it. I don't open any malware, I run scans, I'm careful so how the hell is it happening 🙁

 

[Weaselboy]

Are spammers able to send notifications straight to iCloud then? I have an iCloud email account and use my calendar quite a lot so it's such a pain. I feel like my Mac privacy is being compromised as the notification is so intrusive and I have now idea how it does it. I don't open any malware, I run scans, I'm careful so how the hell is it happening 🙁

http://www.imore.com/getting-spam-invitations-your-calendar-app-heres-fix

You have not been hacked. This is just calendar invite spam and is a recent problem. Just follow the steps at this link to deal with it.

 

[696040]

http://www.imore.com/getting-spam-invitations-your-calendar-app-heres-fix

You have not been hacked. This is just calendar invite spam and is a recent problem. Just follow the steps at this link to deal with it.

Thanks 🙂

 

[aristobrat]

I'm careful so how the hell is it happening 🙁

When I look at the other email addresses "invited" to the event I received, it looks like the spammer is sending the invite to random email addresses, and hoping that they actually exist.