1. An international law enforcemet team has arrested a Chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that officials say he ran for nearly a dacade. [disrupt: interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem.
"a rail strike that could disrupt both passenger and freight service"
Similar: throw into confusion/ throw into disorder/ throw into disarray/ cause confusion/turmoil in/ play havoc with/ derange/
turn upside-down/ make a mess of/ disturb/ disorder/ disorganize/ disarrange/ interfere with/ upset/ unsettle/ convulse/
interrupt/ suspend/ discontinue/ obstruct/ impede/ hamper/ hold up/ delay/ retard/ slow (down)]
2. Officials say that Yunhe Wang sold access to the 19 million Windows computers he hijacked worldwide to creminals who used that access to commit a staggering array of crimes.
3. The U.S. Department of Justice quoted FBI director Christopher Wray as saying that the botnet with a network of malware-infected computers in nearly 200 countries was likely the world's largest.
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