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description: Phishing is a type of cyber-attack where a malicious actor poses as a reputable entity or business in order to deceive people and collect their private information - such as credit card details, usern
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# WHAT IS PHISHING?
Phishing is a type of cyber-attack where a malicious actor poses as a reputable entity or business in order to deceive people and collect their private information - such as credit card details, usernames, passwords and so forth.
Since phishing involves psychological manipulation and relies on human failures (instead of hardware or software) it is considered a type of social engineering attack.
Typically, phishing attacks make use of fraudulent emails that convince the user to enter sensitive information into a fraudulent website.
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