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English
Etymology
Respelling of fishing (“trying to find”). In Usenet newsgroups, cracker and pirate groups used variant spellings of phish and warez (i.e. wares) to evade scans and filters by mainstream servers policing the ARPAnet/Internet. Compare other respelling slang like phat and phreak.
Pronunciation
- Homophone: fishing
Noun
phishing (uncountable)
- (computing) The malicious act of keeping a false website or sending a false e-mail with the intent of masquerading as a trustworthy entity in order to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.
- The act of circumventing security with an alias.
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Translations
malicious act
- Afrikaans: uitvissing
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 釣魚法/钓鱼法 (diu3 jyu4 faat3), 釣魚欺詐/钓鱼欺诈 (diu3 jyu4 hei1 zaa3), 網釣法/网钓法 (mong5 diu3 faat3), 釣魚式攻擊/钓鱼式攻击 (diu3 jyu4 sik1 gung1 gik1), 網絡網釣/网络网钓 (mong5 lok6 mong5 diu3)
- Mandarin: 釣魚法/钓鱼法 (diàoyúfǎ), 釣魚欺詐/钓鱼欺诈 (diàoyúqīzhà), 網釣法/网钓法 (wǎngdiàofǎ), 釣魚式攻擊/钓鱼式攻击 (zh) (diàoyúshì gōngjī, diàoyúshì gōngjí), 網絡網釣/网络网钓 (wǎngluò wǎngdiào), 網路網釣/网路网钓 (wǎnglù wǎngdiào)
- Czech: phishing (cs) n, rhybaření (cs)
- Esperanto: rettrompado
- Finnish: verkkourkinta, tietojen kalastelu; khalastelu (informal); phishing
- French: hameçonnage (fr) m
- Georgian: თაღლითობა (taɣlitoba), ფიშინგი (pišingi)
- German: Phishing (de) n
- Hungarian: adathalászat (hu)
- Indonesian: pengelabuan (id)
- Irish: fioscaireacht f
- Japanese: フィッシング詐欺 (フィッシングさぎ fisshingu sagi)
- Maori: hītinihanga, hītinihanga
- Persian: فیشینگ (fišing)
- Polish: wyłudzanie danych n
- Portuguese: phishing m
- Romanian: înșelăciune electronică f
- Russian: фи́шинг (ru) m (fíšing)
- Spanish: phishing (es) m
- Swedish: nätfiske (sv) n
- Welsh: gwe-rwydo m
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Verb
phishing
- present participle and gerund of phish
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.
Pronunciation
Noun
phishing (slang)
- phishing
Declension
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Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.
Pronunciation
Noun
phishing m (uncountable)
- (computer security) phishing (the act of sending email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organisation)
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.
Pronunciation
Noun
phishing m (uncountable)
- (computing) phishing
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.