Sentence examples for phony websites from inspiring English sources

But these phony websites do raise a few important questions.The first is legal.

APT28 created phony websites impersonating the groups, as well as people's colleagues and Microsoft's own properties.

The company also claimed Phosphorus was violating its trademarks because it was using Microsoft product names on its phony websites.

The phony websites, which were registered with major web-hosting companies, were at my-iri.org, hudsonorg-my-sharepoint.com, senate.group, adfs-senate.services, adfs-senate.email and office365-onedrive.com, according to Microsoft.

In the attacks, hackers send out emails and social media posts with the aim of infiltrating computer systems by tricking victims into visiting phony websites with malicious software that appear authentic.

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.

The messages asked victims to verify their email accounts by clicking on a link that took them to a phony website, where Helton collected their usernames and passwords.

It claims Northam's absence from board meetings of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership amounted to a failure of supervision that "let a fake Chinese company with a false address and phony website to take $1.4 million of our money". This grant was cited in a blistering performance review by the legislature's audit arm, and led to an overhaul of the agency's oversight and board.

An investigation of the hack revealed that a number of top Sony Pictures executives, including CEO Michael Lynton, got fake Apple ID-verification emails in mid-September asking them to go to a phony Apple website to confirm their Apple ID and password.

And let's not forget the rave reviews from media outlets like Wisconsin Reporter, which is bankrolled by Donors Trust, the preferred vehicle for the Koch donors network, and the phony "grassroots" website popped up by AFP operatives.

See Glass' phony corporate site.