VOA常速英语2021--华盛顿警察局遭俄语勒索软件袭击

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While the world's wealthier nations have stockpiled the Coronavirus vaccines¹ for their citizens, many other poorer countries are still scrambling² to secure doses. A few have yet to receive any whatsoever³. The World Health Organization says about a dozen countries, many of them in Africa, are still waiting to get vaccines. Those last in line on the continent along with Chad are Burkina Faso, Burundi, Eritrea and Tanzania, WHO says delays and shortages are driving African countries to slip further behind the rest of the world in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, with the continent accounting⁴ for only 1% of the vaccines administered worldwide so far.

尽管世界上较富裕的国家已经为本国公民储备了新冠疫苗，但许多其他较贫穷的国家仍在争抢疫苗剂量。其中部分国家尚未收到过疫苗。世界卫生组织称，大约有十几个国家仍在等待获得疫苗，其中许多是非洲国家。非洲大陆上排在疫苗获取队列最末尾的是乍得、布基纳法索、布隆迪、厄立特里亚和坦桑尼亚。世卫组织表示，拖延和短缺问题正在促使非洲国家在新冠疫苗推出方面进一步落后于世界其他国家，迄今为止，非洲大陆的疫苗接种量只占全世界总接种量的1%。

Criminal hackers⁵ are now using brazen⁶ methods to try to extort⁷ money from law enforcement agencies including leaking or threatening to leak highly sensitive and potentially life-threatening information. The defiant⁸ attacks on law enforcement agencies underscore how little the criminal syndicates that operate ransomware gangs fear any repercussions⁹. In Washington DC, a Russian-speaking ransomware something you call Babuk hacked¹⁰ into the network of the City Police Department and threatened to leak the identities of departments confidential¹¹ informants. Experts say that they hadn't seen such aggressive tactics used against police departments before.

犯罪性黑客当前正使用无耻手段试图向执法机构勒索钱财，包括泄露或威胁泄露高度敏感及可能危及生命的信息。对执法机构的挑衅攻击突显出这些操纵勒索软件的犯罪集团对任何后果都毫无畏惧。一个自称Babuk的俄语勒索软件侵入了华盛顿特区的警察局网络，并威胁泄露警方秘密线人的身份。专家们称，他们之前从未见过如此嚣张挑衅警方的手段。

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says that Mexico has complained to US officials about their alleged¹² financing for anti-corruption group that he said has engaged in political activity against his administration. He made the announcement at a news conference shortly before Friday's online meeting with the US vice¹³ President Kamala Harris, the issue apparently¹⁴ did not arise at that meeting. Via remote, I'm Tommy McNeal VOA news.

墨西哥总统安德烈斯·曼努埃尔·洛佩斯·奥布拉多表示，墨西哥已经投诉美国官员涉嫌资助反腐败组织，他说，该反腐败组织参与了反政府政治活动。他在周五的新闻发布会上宣布了这一消息，此后不久就与美国副总统卡马拉·哈里斯进行了网上会晤，而该议题显然没有出现在会议上。我是汤米·麦克纳尔，为您远程报道美国之音新闻。