Synonyms for phishing
phish·ing

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1. phishingnoun

   Synonyms:
   spoofing

2. phishingnoun

   The act of sending email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organization. This is usually combined with a threat or request for information: for example, that an account will close, a balance is due, or information is missing from an account. The email will ask the recipient to supply confidential information, such as bank account details, PINs or passwords; these details are then used by the owners of the website to conduct fraud.

   Synonyms:
   spoofing

3. phishingnoun

   The act of circumventing security with an alias.

   Synonyms:
   spoofing

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1. List of paraphrases for "phishing":

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How to use phishing in a sentence?

1. Rafi Mendelsohn:

   Bad actors have won the jackpot, previously private data such as emails, handles, and creation date can be leveraged to build smarter and more sophisticated hacking, phishing and disinformation campaigns.

2. Wedbush Securities:

   Consumers should be on the lookout for phishing and malware attacks, especially when accessing banking apps.

3. Evan Reiser:

   We’ve seen these attacks play out before, when the first stimulus payments were released in April 2020, scammers launched a phishing campaign that impersonated the IRS, claiming that stimulus checks would be withheld unless the recipient updated their address information.

4. Michael Coates:

   This could be any number of techniques being used, from phishing emails [ to ] some sort of bribery.

5. Varun Badhwar:

   Even if the data that was leaked is mostly publicly available, having one large data dump makes it easier for attackers to run attack campaigns where they send mass phishing emails to the 33.7 million unique email addresses at the impacted organizations, so while it’s important to quickly investigate this specific breach and find the root cause, it’s even more important for the impacted organizations to ensure that they have tools to be able to monitor their networks for anomalous activity and stay vigilant.