255 Fake Accounts Used to Send Malicious Excel Files to 80,000 Freelancers
Wed Sep 02 2026
Cybercrime
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Phishing
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A Russian national has been extradited to the United States to face charges over an alleged phishing operation that used 255 fake accounts on a freelance employment platform to distribute malicious Microsoft Excel files to roughly 80,000 users. Federal prosecutors allege that Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev, 40, orchestrated the campaign between June 2016 and November 2017, […]
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