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What's phishing?
It's a social engineering technique when a group of attackers impersonate popular underground jam band Phish to conduct a "Farmhouse" attack on a data center
It's a social engineering technique when an attacker pretends to be an entity or organization in order to steal credentials or other sensitive data
It's when attackers utilize digital "lures" in a network transported data stream in order to acquire ciphertext, then they reel 'em in.
It's when firmware-level spyware is deployed to route credentials or other sensitive data to an attacker's botnet
It's a social engineering technique when an attacker pretends to be an entity or organization in order to steal credentials or other sensitive data. A common example is when a target is sent an email that pretends to be from their bank, asking for their online banking username and password. EDIT None of these answers are truly correct. For the current answer to be correct it should include the context of attempting this technique over electronic communication.
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