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A Russian national extradited from Cyprus faces trial over a 2016–17 campaign that used 225 fake accounts on a Santa Clara freelance platform to send Excel macros dropping the TeamViewer-abusing TVRAT. The unsealed indictment gives numbers the press release rounded away.

MalwareSocial EngineeringFinancial Fraud

A Russian web developer extradited from Georgia faces trial over a 2023–25 operation that bought search ads impersonating banks, harvested 5,000+ logins and 2FA codes on cloned pages, and tried to wire $5.58 million from one Atlanta company in a day. The mule LLC was registered in Georgia two months

Financial FraudSocial EngineeringIdentity Theft