KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 30 -- It starts with getting a calendar invite for something you know you shouldn't be getting, usually from a familiar name, most of the time, a colleague.

Then the invite that you didn't even click "Yes" to has taken up space in your entire calendar.

If you've been unlucky enough to get your email in your Google Workspace it won't just be you, but your colleagues as well.

Your boss, your juniors, even the cleaning lady now have their whole calendars full of this random invite.

This is the new phenomenon of spam calendar invites that can hijack your entire organisation's calendars and even disrupt emails.

In most cases it's an attempt at phishing, convincing you to try and join a meeting created especially to ste...