International police dismantle “First VPN,” a service used by ransomware actors.

International police dismantle “First VPN,” a service used by ransomware actors.
Eurojust said French and Dutch authorities, supported by Eurojust and Europol, shut down the criminal VPN service First VPN after a coordinated action on May 19–20. Authorities dismantled more than 33 servers, seized domains including 1vpns.com, 1vpns.net, 1vpns.org and associated onion domains, and searched/interviewed a suspect in Ukraine. Eurojust says the service marketed itself to criminals as a way to hide identities and enable hacking and ransomware attacks. Europol-linked reporting says the service appeared in almost every major Europol-supported cybercrime investigation.