The growing commonness of these crimes coincided with the formation of the UK’s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit.

这些罪行日益增长的共性与英国国家高科技犯罪中心的成立相吻合。

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With the trend of more and more organized crime and hi-tech crime, conventional and open criminal investigation measures are facing unprecedented challenges.

在当今刑事犯罪越来越呈现组织化、科技化的趋势下，常规的、公开的刑事侦查措施面临前所未有的挑战。

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What these people have realised now is that hi-tech crime can be very lucrative.

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Brian Krebs said he was no longer shocked by the scale and sophistication of the hi-tech crime economy.

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"It was a protection racket just like those run 40 years ago in London's nightclubs, " says Michael Deats, detective superintendent of the U.K.'s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit.

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