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US Sanctions First VPN Service and Administrator for Aiding Ransomware Groups

The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned First VPN Service (1VPNS) and its administrator, Dmytro Rashevskyi, for facilitating ransomware attacks by providing anonymity and evasion capabilities to cybercriminals, and also sanctioned Yegeniy Vladimirovich Silayev for selling 'cryptors' that make malware harder to detect, impacting critical infrastructure.

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