Phishing

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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A digital form of social engineering that uses authentic-looking—but bogus—emails to request information from users or direct them to a fake Web site that requests information.

polysemous

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Threat90%rule-basedr:entity.threat.attack.v1

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Phishings
possessive: Phishing's
pluralpossessive: Phishings'

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