Bài tập word formation 06

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WORD FORM 06
RUSSIAN HACKING GROUP'S 'LAST MEMBER AT LIBERTY' COMES OUT OF
THE SHADOWS
Wearing a Christmas jumper (1) __________ (blaze) with reindeer, Alexander sits in a bar in
Riga. He has a remarkable story to tell. After several years hiding in the shadows, he is, or at least
claims to be, the last member still at large of Russia’s most (2) ________ (fame) band of hackers and
leakers.
Shaltai-Boltai, or Humpty Dumpty, terrorised Russian officials for nearly three years,
combining hacking, leaking and extortion, while retaining an (3) ___________ (penetrate) cloak of
anonymity. The group would post online samples of emails from officials they had hacked, and put
the rest of the cache up for sale: the (4) ___________ (criminal) information could then either be
bought back by the original sender, or snapped up by enemies.
But in mid-December, Shaltai-Boltai’s sardonic Twitter feed suddenly went quiet, and in late
January Russian media claimed the group’s founder, named as Vladimir Anikeyev, had been
arrested. The case took on an extra layer of intrigue when it was reported that two of Russia’s top
(5) __________ (secure) agents at the FSB had also been arrested, along with an expert from Russian
firm Kaspersky Lab.
Sources briefed Russian media (6) _________ (let) that the FSB security officers were accused
of working for the CIA, and linked the case to Shaltai-Boltai. Coming so soon after US intelligence
pointed fingers at Russian intelligence for hacking the Democratic party, as part of an attempt to
help get Donald Trump elected, the arrests raised eyebrows. Was Shaltai-Boltai a conduit for
passing information to the CIA, or was the meshing of the two cases a way of obscuring the real
truth about why the FSB agents were in trouble? The rumour mill went into (7) _________ (drive),
and each day brought fresh leaks and new theories, with varying degrees of (8) ________ (plausible).

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