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    What is Phishing?
    Stan Patey
    • Apr 24, 2018
    • 3 min

    What is Phishing?

    Phishing is an exploit where cyber-criminals assume the identity of a recognized company to hook recipients into revealing credentials to accounts, personally identifiable information, or to open attachments that download dangerous malware, keystroke loggers or ransomware onto your computer and network. Familiar logos, colors, page styles and formatting, along with email addresses and domains are the reassuring bait that lures the recipient to click that link in phishing ema
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