Examples of “whaling” in a Sentence

noun The industry or practice of hunting whales, typically for oil, meat, or blubber.

• Commercial whaling is now banned in most of the world.

noun A cyberattack that specifically targets a high-value individual such as a company executive.

• The CFO nearly transferred the funds before recognizing the email as a whaling attempt.
• The company trains its leaders to spot whaling, because those emails look very convincing.
• A fake message pretending to be from the CEO is a classic whaling trick.