US indicts Russian national for malware campaign targeting 80,000 freelancers

A California federal grand jury indicted a Russian national for orchestrating a phishing campaign that infected thousands of freelancers with TVRAT and DarkVNC malware. The indictment marks a rare public attribution of a cybercrime operation to a specific individual, though the full scope of the campaign and any links to state-sponsored actors remain unclear. This underscores ongoing cyber threats to remote workers and the US legal system's efforts to prosecute foreign cybercriminals.