Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a large-scale phishing campaign targeting WooCommerce users with a fake security alert urging them to download a "critical patch" but deploy a backdoor instead. WordPress security company Patchstack described the activity as sophisticated and a variant of another campaign observed in December 2023 that employed a fake CVE ploy to breach sites running the popular content management system (CMS). Given the similarities in the phishing email lures, the bogus web pages, and the identical methods employed to conceal the malware, it's believed the latest attack wave is either the work of the same threat actor or it's a new cluster closely mimicking the earlier one.

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