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Recent Examples of honeypot
Google Chrome has proven a particularly enticing honeypot for cybercriminals looking to trick Android users into downloading malware.
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Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Yes, there’s the obvious danger of combining barreling down the highway with Fortnite, but experts are also warning that the games pose another risk as a honeypot for hackers.
—Kevin Williams, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2025
Windows remains a honeypot for cyber attacks and security vulnerabilities, for half or more of its user base to be off support is simply unthinkable.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
Any event of this magnitude is a honeypot to bad actors, who know there will be plenty of users out there itching to tap or point and click at a solution for their missing fixes.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Yes, there’s the obvious danger of combining barreling down the highway with Fortnite, but experts are also warning that the games pose another risk as a honeypot for hackers.
—Kevin Williams, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2025
Windows remains a honeypot for cyber attacks and security vulnerabilities, for half or more of its user base to be off support is simply unthinkable.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
Any event of this magnitude is a honeypot to bad actors, who know there will be plenty of users out there itching to tap or point and click at a solution for their missing fixes.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for honeypot
Noun
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Electronic Arts is looking for a microtransactions bonanza this fall after reporting its lowest Q1 net revenue from live services since 2022—part of a multiyear stagnation for in-game purchases on the publisher’s titles.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Will trips to waterparks or minigolf outings make up for less lavish birthday bonanzas?—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
20 July 2025
Noun
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But nothing seems to stop the gravy train, not even the specter of being called out in print.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
13 Aug. 2025
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However, if the U.S. government continues subsidizing nuclear technologies without regard to proliferation risk, then the plutonium entrepreneurs will keep hopping on that gravy train.—
Alan J. Kuperman,
Scientific American,
30 July 2025
Noun
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My last round of questions, particularly useless, equally American, involves the bewildering cultural cache that Park throws into his work.—
Eric Olson
July 30,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2025
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While its competitors like Capcom’s Street Fighter have seen peaks and valleys in their cultural cache, Warner Bros. Games have churned out Mortal Kombat games regularly since the original game’s arcade release in 1992.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
17 July 2025
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Eventually, straight from Kim’s personal stash to my house in Austin, one came via UPS overnight.—
Margaux Anbouba,
Vogue,
4 Aug. 2025
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After a few days, the team had managed to fill 15 sacks with their concrete stash, and checked them in at the Pan Am counter of Berlin Bradenburg Airport.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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“Honeypot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honeypot. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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