Sentence examples for phony site from inspiring English sources
When a potential phishing victim unwittingly enters his eBay password at a phony site posing as eBay, PwdHash generates a new password for the phisher's site, so the phisher ends up gathering something totally different than what is actually needed to log in at eBay.
Installing malicious software on phony websites is a popular method for hacking into computers and resembles the tactic used in the attack on John Podesta, the campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton, who received a fake security-warning email that linked to a phony site created by Russians.
Embedded in the e-mail was a link to the phony site.
When users entered "China earthquake" into search engines, they saw the phony site listed in the top 10 results.
Phishing, the spammer tactic of duping e-mail recipients into logging in to a phony site and then nabbing their personal info, has everyone confused.
Last December, hackers hijacked the Web site CheckFree.com, an online bill payment company, uploading malicious code that redirected visitors to a phony site.
The phony sites were then used in Iran to spy on as many as 300,000 people, according to a report by a security firm, Fox-IT, that was hired by the Dutch government.
Reporters and researchers in Britain, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Ukraine, Latvia, and Slovakia maintain lists of phony sites, and have helped readers follow the trail of conspiracies as they work their way through Twitter and Facebook.
The group — which Microsoft calls "Phosphorus" but other cybersecurity companies have dubbed "APT 35," "Ajax Security Team" and "Charming Kitten" — sent those people emails and social media posts directing them to the phony sites where they might load malicious software on their computers.
They load Web pages with keywords to trick people into visiting their phony sites and then infect their computers.
Why these phony sites circulated invented news have come to be isn't the issue.
