Phishing

How it is used

Very common in crypto security: phishing emails, phishing sites, phishing links and fake support accounts on social media. In Web3, a phishing site may ask users to sign a malicious approval that lets attackers move their tokens.

Example sentences

1. A phishing site copied our login page and changed only one letter in the domain.

2. We send users a phishing warning every time a fake support account appears.

Common collocations

• phishing attack
• phishing site
• phishing email
• phishing link
• fall for a phishing scam

Related terms

• seed phraseA list of usually 12 or 24 ordinary words that can rebuild a wallet and all its private keys. It is the master backup of a wallet, so whoever has it controls the funds.
• private keyA secret number that proves you own a wallet and lets you sign transactions. Anyone who has the private key can move the funds, so it must never be shared.
• rug pullA scam in which the creators of a crypto project suddenly take investors' money and disappear, for example by removing all the liquidity from a token's trading pool.
• exploitAn attack that takes advantage of a bug or design weakness, often in a smart contract or bridge, to steal funds or make a system behave in a way its creators did not intend.
• hardware walletA small physical device, often similar to a USB stick, that stores private keys offline and signs transactions inside the device, so the keys never touch an internet-connected computer.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• phishing · Software Engineering
• phishing · Cybersecurity
• phishing · Finance & Banking

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