#extradition
2 cases
The Freelance Platform That Delivered TeamSpy: 80,000 Job Invites, 2,169 Infections, One Extradition
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.
MalwareFinancial Fraud
Sponsored-Link Bank Phishing: How a Google Ad Above the Real Login Took $14.6 MillionFinancial FraudIdentity Theft
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 FraudIdentity Theft