SPIN Unprocessed September 2, 2026 ai_technology cybersecurity
Extradited Russian Hacker Faces Charges Over Excel Malware Campaign That Infected Thousands
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Russian national, extradited from Cyprus on August 28, with using roughly 255 fake accounts on a freelance platform to send malware-laced Excel attachments to about 80,000 of its users in 2016 and 2017. Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev, 40, was arrested in Cyprus in May 2025, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California
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