What Is Phishing? Recognizing and Preventing Attacks

Phishing is an attack in which someone impersonates a person or organization you trust, like your host, registrar, bank, or colleague, in order to steal information, redirect a payment, or talk you into an action that helps them. The message is the delivery vehicle, and the goal is always the next action you take.

If you run a website, you’re on both sides of this problem. Your hosting panel, domain registrar, WordPress admin, email, and payment accounts are all valuable targets, and if an attacker gets in through any of them, your site can quietly end up hosting phishing pages aimed at someone else’s customers.

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