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Phishing

In plain words

A fake website or message that tricks you into typing your password.

Attackers copy the look of a real site or email and hope you do not notice the difference. Once you type your credentials, they replay them on the real site. Checking the address bar or using passkeys defeats most of it.

In a sentence

“The bank email was phishing because the link went to a look-alike domain.”

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