一、听力练习
1.
A. It is primarily used for personal communication.
B. It facilitates large-scale criminal operations by organized crime groups.
C. It has become a popular platform for social media influencers.
D. It is a secure platform for governmental communication.
2.
A. Only the sharing of personal opinions.
B. Trading stolen data and selling cybercrime tools.
C. Legal business transactions.
D. Promotion of legitimate online services.
3.
A. The app would improve its user privacy settings.
B. The app would surrender users' IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities.
C. The app would stop all user registrations.
D. The app would increase content moderation.
二、听力文本
Powerful crime groups in Southeast Asia use the messaging app Telegram widely, the United Nations said in a report on Monday. It said the app's use led to major changes in the way such groups carry out large criminal operations. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) produced the report. The investigators say stolen data, including credit card information, passwords and browser history, are openly traded on the app. The app has many channels and little content supervision, the report said. Criminals on the app also sell tools used for cybercrime, including so-called deepfake software and data-stealing malware. And, criminal cryptocurrency exchanges carry out business on Telegram also, the report said. "We move 3 million USDT stolen from overseas per day," the report quoted one advertisement as saying in Chinese. There is "strong evidence of underground data markets moving to Telegram and vendors actively looking to target transnational organized crime groups based in Southeast Asia," the report said. Southeast Asia has emerged as a center for a multibillion-dollar online crime industry that targets victims across the world. Many industry members are Chinese criminal groups that operate from large, protected complexes using trafficked workers. The industry makes between $27.4 billion to $36.5 billion yearly, the UNODC said. In August, French police arrested Telegram's leader Pavel Durov in Paris. Officials charged him with permitting criminal activity on the site, including the online spread of sexual images of children. Telegram, which has close to 1 billion users, did not immediately answer a request for comment Following his arrest, Durov said the app would surrender users' IP addresses and phone numbers to French officials making legal requests. He also said the app would remove some tools that have been abused for illegal activity. The report said the huge amount of profit earned by criminal groups in the area led them to change their operating methods. They established new business models and added technologies to their systems, including malware, generative artificial intelligence and deepfakes, officials say. The UNODC said it had identified more than ten deepfake software service providers “targeting criminal groups involved in cyber-enabled fraud in Southeast Asia."
Question 1: What is the main concern highlighted in the UN report regarding the use of Telegram?
Question 2: According to the report, what type of illegal activities are being conducted on Telegram?
Question 3: What significant change did Telegram's leader, Pavel Durov, mention after his arrest?
三、重点词汇
1. traffic: To deal in or trade something, especially something illegal, such as drugs or people. 指买卖或交易某种东西，特别是指非法交易，如毒品或人口贩卖。
四、背景知识
Telegram（非正式简称TG或电报、纸飞机），是跨平台的即时通讯软件，支持用户相互交换加密与自毁消息，发送照片、影片等所有类型文件。官方提供手机版、桌面版和网页版等多种平台客户端；同时官方开放应用程序接口，因此拥有许多第三方的客户端可供选择，其中多款内置中文。（背景知识来自于百度百科）
五、参考答案
Question 1: B
Question 2: B
Question 3: B
六、网络翻译
联合国周一发布的一份报告称，东南亚的强大犯罪集团广泛使用即时通讯应用Telegram。报告指出，该应用的使用导致这些集团在进行大规模犯罪活动的方式上发生了重大变化。联合国毒品和犯罪办公室（UNODC）制作了这份报告。调查人员表示，包括信用卡信息、密码和浏览历史在内的被盗数据在该应用上公开交易。报告还提到，该应用有许多频道，内容监管较少。犯罪分子在应用上还出售用于网络犯罪的工具，包括所谓的深度伪造软件和窃取数据的恶意软件。此外，报告还指出，犯罪加密货币交易也在Telegram上进行。“我们每天转移300万美元的被盗USDT，”报告引用了一则中文广告的话。报告表示，“有强有力的证据表明，地下数据市场正在转向Telegram，供应商积极寻找目标是总部位于东南亚的跨国有组织犯罪集团。”东南亚已成为一个价值数十亿美元的网络犯罪产业中心，目标是全球的受害者。许多行业参与者是来自大型保护性建筑并使用被贩卖工人的中国犯罪集团。联合国毒品和犯罪办公室表示，该产业的年收入在274亿美元到365亿美元之间。8月，法国警方在巴黎逮捕了Telegram的创始人帕维尔·杜罗夫，并指控他允许该网站上的犯罪活动，包括传播儿童性图像。Telegram拥有近10亿用户，尚未立即回应评论请求。杜罗夫在被捕后表示，该应用将向法国官员提供用户的IP地址和电话号码，前提是有合法请求。他还表示，应用将移除一些被滥用于非法活动的工具。报告指出，该地区犯罪集团获得的巨额利润促使他们改变运营方式。他们建立了新的商业模式，并在系统中增加了包括恶意软件、生成性人工智能和深度伪造在内的技术。联合国毒品和犯罪办公室表示，它已识别出超过十个针对参与东南亚网络欺诈的犯罪集团的深度伪造软件服务提供商。
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