WooCommerce Users Targeted by Fake Patch Phishing Campaign Deploying Site Backdoors

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WooCommerce Users Targeted by Fake Patch Phishing Campaign Deploying Site Backdoors

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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

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