pharming

noun — 2 senses

pharming

noun

Etymology from pharmaceutical + farming

The use of genetic engineering to alter an animal or plant in order to make it produce a pharmaceutical or similar product

Synonyms: biofarming, biopharming

pharming

noun

Etymology From farming, by analogy with earlier phishing.

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The redirection of traffic for one website to another, with intent to deceive.

Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests.2006, Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures, page 128:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.