SECURITY ISSUE: Spam email adding events to calendar



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Have these issued been corrected yet?


I am starting to experience the same thing and find this to be a HUGE security concern. Calendar events get added to my calendar. It is not far fetched for a busy person or someone who hasn't yet had their coffee to click on the call or join link and voilà virus installed.


Even if it gets deleted, declined or accepted, a notification goes to the spammer, sending them more information than they deserve.


Please advise.



MacBook Pro 16″

Posted on Nov 6, 2025 7:20 AM

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Posted on Nov 6, 2025 9:25 AM

Follow the steps here by accessing your Google Calendar on their website. I only mentioned the Microsoft accounts because recently their servers have been under the same malicious spam invitations. By syncing those account to your Calendar app, you will see the same spam invites that appear on those mail servers show up in your Calendar. You can test that by stop syncing the Calendar with that account and if they immediately go away, you have found where they are coming from.


  1. Go to Google Calendar on your computer.
  2. Click the gear icon in the top-right corner and select Settings.
  3. In the left-hand menu, click on Event settings.
  4. Find the "Automatically add invitations" dropdown menu and change the setting to No, only show invitations to which I have responded.
    • This prevents events from appearing on your calendar unless you explicitly respond to the email invitation.
    • You can also choose "Only if the sender is known" to add events only from people in your contacts. 


I would recommend to only sync iCloud with your Calendar, but I do understand that some users have an interest in using a third party source for Calendar events, but that does come at the expense of also seeing those spam invites in your Calendar app. They are simply synced from that server and the spam would need to be blocked from appearing on the server to prevent it from syncing to your Calendar app.


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Nov 6, 2025 9:25 AM in response to TammyFenz

Follow the steps here by accessing your Google Calendar on their website. I only mentioned the Microsoft accounts because recently their servers have been under the same malicious spam invitations. By syncing those account to your Calendar app, you will see the same spam invites that appear on those mail servers show up in your Calendar. You can test that by stop syncing the Calendar with that account and if they immediately go away, you have found where they are coming from.


  1. Go to Google Calendar on your computer.
  2. Click the gear icon in the top-right corner and select Settings.
  3. In the left-hand menu, click on Event settings.
  4. Find the "Automatically add invitations" dropdown menu and change the setting to No, only show invitations to which I have responded.
    • This prevents events from appearing on your calendar unless you explicitly respond to the email invitation.
    • You can also choose "Only if the sender is known" to add events only from people in your contacts. 


I would recommend to only sync iCloud with your Calendar, but I do understand that some users have an interest in using a third party source for Calendar events, but that does come at the expense of also seeing those spam invites in your Calendar app. They are simply synced from that server and the spam would need to be blocked from appearing on the server to prevent it from syncing to your Calendar app.


Nov 7, 2025 6:22 AM in response to TammyFenz

@ muggy

When I select Delete, I don't have an option to choose report junk. I just get this:



@Mac Jim ID:

That solution seems workable. It still shows up on the calendar, but this time if I delete it, it just deletes it and does not send a response. I am guessing, if the event is synced from Google, then it wants to reply to the sender, but if it is synced because Siri finds it in the email, then it just allows it to be deleted.


It seems it required combination of those solutions to solve the problem.


Thanks for the support.



Nov 6, 2025 8:16 AM in response to Mac Jim ID

It is a RackSpace email account synced to mail via IMAP and SMTP. Then the same email address is used for a Google Calendar that is synced to the Calendar. I did it this way because I do not know if there is a better way.


I attempted one solution, which was to disconnect wifi (which I did on all my devices that share the same accounts), then I deleted the calendar event; it warned me that the sender would be notified. Then I waited to see if a message showed up in the outbox, but none did. So, I am not sure that it even worked.

SECURITY ISSUE: Spam email adding events to calendar

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