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Cyber hackers hacked

The website of ransomware cyber-criminals Lockbit has been seized by authorities.

รับชมวิดีโอพร้อมทำแบบฝีกหัด

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The story  

One of the most significant disruptions of the cyber-criminal world. That’s what an operation to take control of Lockbit has been described as.

The criminal organisation, thought to be based in Russia, hacked into companies’ computers and locked users out until they paid them money.

Now Lockbit has been locked out of its own website after a UK-led operation.

Key words and phrases

takedown

the removal of something from the internet; defeat

• There was a takedown after the company realised they had made mistakes on their website.
• Losing 10-0 was a takedown. It’s the worst defeat in the club’s history.

prolific
creating a lot of something

• Steven King is a prolific author. He’s written about 65 novels.
• • The burglar was prolific. He’d broken into hundreds of homes by the time he was finally jailed.

infamous
famous for negative reasons

• Al Capone was an infamous American gangster.
• Many of the world’s most infamous dictators lived in the 20th Century.

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