US Treasury sanctions a VPN provider and its administrator for the first time

The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated First VPN Service, also known as 1VPNS, and its Ukrainian administrator, Dmytro Rashevskyi. Belarusian national Yegeniy Vladimirovich Silayev was sanctioned separately for selling "cryptors," tools designed to disguise ransomware and other malware as harmless software so security systems do not detect it.