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> In 2023, hackers used vishing (voice phishing) to impersonate employees and gain access to the internal systems of MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment on the Las Vegas Strip, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in financial losses.

First time I’ve heard the term “vishing” to describe the attack we’ve all seen coming.

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Phishing (Email), Smishing (SMS/Text Messages), and Vishing (Voice) are all standard industry terms, though obviously phishing is most well known.

Then there's even subcategories that further define some of these, like Spear Phishing, Whaling.

The industry loves its fun naming.

"Phishing" isn't limited to email

That’s lucky. Putting ‘ishing’ on the end of something email related doesn’t work very well.

Never heard of vishing. I’m in the industry.

Wrong industry. It is primarily the "sell anti-phishing training to enterprise employees" industry that uses these terms.

I was worked in an anti Phishing / brand protection firm back in 2012 and we had Vishing and Smishing terminology baked in the to projects back then.

> Smishing

uh that's something completely different (and not Monty Python)

Why is it not emishing with email?

social engineering is as old as hacking itself

That was Mitnick’s specialty, and he was hacking before the Web.

The Art of Deception was one of my favorite books when it came out.

In my day we used to call it "social engineering".

“human hacking”

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