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social engineering dressed as your bank, hoping you click before you think
means the practice of sending fraudulent messages that impersonate trusted sources to trick you into revealing passwords, card numbers, or other sensitive information.
from A deliberate misspelling of "fishing" — you bait a hook and wait for someone to bite. It emerged in 1990s hacker culture, where swapping "f" for "ph" was a stylistic tradition borrowed from "phreaking" (the older art of hacking phone systems). So phishing is fishing for victims, dressed up in hacker spelling.
- name origin
- Spelled with ph after early phone hackers, phreaks
- top disguise
- Fake login pages are most common attack form
- human flaw
- Exploits urgency, fear, and trust, not code
- first recorded
- AOL accounts targeted back in the mid-1990s
- costly
- Billions lost yearly to a single click
for instance
twitter bitcoin scam hack — july 2020 attack where hackers phished employee credentials to hijack verified accounts and promote fake crypto giveaways