As Election Day Nears, Kremlin Leans on Hackers-for-Hire

The article reports that the U.S. Department of Justice indicted Artem Lifshits for participating in Project Lakhta—an ongoing Russia-based influence campaign tied to the Internet Research Agency—alleging he used stolen U.S. identities to open fraudulent bank and cryptocurrency exchange accounts to fund covert political influence operations and personal gain, illustrating how state-directed influence activity is financed via cybercriminal fraud.