Phishing
Course: AP® Cybersecurity Shows up in: Unit 1: Introduction to SecurityUnit 2: Securing Spaces
A social engineering message, usually an email or text, that pretends to be trustworthy to get the target to reveal information, click a link or open a file.
Appears in the course and exam description (CED): 1.4.A.22.3.A.1
Why it matters in Unit 1
AI can now write phishing with no spelling mistakes, so judge the request, not the grammar.
Example
An email “from the school portal” asks you to log in through a link to see your grades.
Learn it properly, with a checkpoint 1.4 AI-Based Cybersecurity AttacksGo deeper: the professional references
Security professionals worldwide use these. MITRE ATT&CK catalogs real attacker techniques; the NIST glossary is the U.S. government's official security dictionary. They go beyond the AP® course, so use the definition above for the exam.