Word: spoofing
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: spoo
fing
Definition: Phishing; a type of social engineering where an attacker sends a fraudulent ("spoofed") message designed to trick a human victim into revealing sensitive information to the attacker or to deploy malicious software on the victim's infrastructure like ransomware
Morphemes:
Affix: spoof
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.