Russian National Indicted For Exploiting Online Platform Used For Freelance Employment And Distributing Malware To Thousands Of Victims

SAN FRANCISCO A federal grand jury has indicted Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev on charges of Conspiracy Transmission of a Program Information Code and Command to Cause Damage to a Protected Computer and Aggravated Identity Theft among other offenses Defendant was arrested in Cyprus in May 2025 and has been extradited to the United States Yesterday Source