Law enforcement intercepted VPN traffic, seized domains, and arrested its operator.
Europol announced yesterday the results of the operation against the service, First VPN. The First VPN website now displays a message saying the domain was seized by a joint international law enforcement action.
“A VPN service used by cybercriminals to conceal ransomware attacks, data theft, and other serious offenses has been dismantled in an international operation led by France and the Netherlands, with support from Europol and Eurojust,” the agency said. “For years, the service, known as ‘First VPN,’ was promoted on Russian-speaking cybercrime forums as a trusted tool for remaining beyond the reach of law enforcement. It offered users anonymous payments, hidden infrastructure, and services designed specifically for criminal use.”
You mean 1VPN was made by law enforcement to catch criminals?
If it didn’t start that way, as we see here it did become one.
I don’t know if this one is but that would be my first assumption about any vpn that’s explicitly advertising to criminals to do crime
makes sense. then law enforcement can claim they cracked the criminal VPN, which both casts doubt on VPN security, and makes VPNs look criminal.