pharming

English

Etymology 1

from pharmaceutical + farming

Noun

pharming (uncountable)

1. 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

Etymology 2

From farming, by analogy with earlier phishing.

Noun

pharming (uncountable)

1. (computing) The redirection of traffic for one website to another, with intent to deceive.
   • 2006, Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures, page 128:

     Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests.