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US charges Russian for infecting 80,000 freelancers with malware

Summary by BleepingComputer
A California federal grand jury has indicted a Russian national for his role in a phishing campaign that infected thousands of freelancers with TVRAT and DarkVNC malware.

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A federal grand jury from California formally indicted Russian citizen Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev for a phishing campaign that allegedly infected 80,000 computers and allowed for the theft of credentials, personal data and other information via TVRAT and DarkVNC. Following his extradition from Cyprus, the defendant was placed in federal custody and faced a possible sentence of up to 20 years for conspiracy to commit electronic fraud.

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BleepingComputer broke the news in Melville, United States on Wednesday, September 2, 2026.
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