verb
- past tense of phish; to attempt to acquire sensitive information (such as passwords or credit card details) by deception, typically through fraudulent emails or websites that impersonate legitimate organizations
Usage: informal; cybersecurity term; commonly used in computing and security contexts
Examples
- The company warned employees that they had been phished in a recent email attack.
- Thousands of customers were phished when scammers sent fake bank login pages.
- She realized she had been phished after entering her password on a suspicious website.
- The cybersecurity team discovered that the network had been phished through a malicious attachment.
- Many people were phished during the holiday season by fake shopping confirmation emails.