This Mac malware is somehow using iCloud calendar invites to try and steal your data
Pro Security This Mac malware is somehow using iCloud calendar invites to try and steal your data News By Sead Fadilpašić Published 25 September 2026 A loader talks to the iCloud before deploying a sophisticated infostealer When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Also, crooks don’t want to be forced to repeat the process every time they want to deploy a different variant, or type of malware. You will receive a confirmation email shortly."},"failureMessage":"There was a problem.
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- ▪Also, crooks don’t want to be forced to repeat the process every time they want to deploy a different variant, or type of malware.
- ▪You will receive a confirmation email shortly."},"failureMessage":"There was a problem.
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| Original publisher | TechRadar |
| Canonical URL | https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/this-mac-malware-is-somehow-using-icloud-calendar-invites-to-try-and-steal-your-data |
| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:40:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-25T15:05:32.058Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-25T15:05:32.058Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | JPjqA620hgH0 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Pro Security This Mac malware is somehow using iCloud calendar invites to try and steal your data News By Sead Fadilpašić Published 25 September 2026 A loader talks to the iCloud before deploying a sophisticated infostealer When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Unsplash) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Kaspersky uncovers MacSync, a Mac infostealer delivered via iCloud calendar events and fake appsLoader fetches instructions from calendar entries, then deploys malware exfiltrating credentials, wallets, and developer dataNewer variants add…
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