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When was anything made by Google safe?
They are encoding commands in calendar events there is not a vulnerability in Google calendar. After your device is compromised its commanded to subscribe to a calendar. Those events have commands. Since checking your calendar is a normal event unlike connecting to a nefarious server it becomes more difficult to discover.
Is it? Everything is in their cloud. You’d think since they have all the data they might check it for malicious activity. I guess that’s not much of a priority for them because it’s hard to tell what’s malicious and what’s “Google”