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  "textContent": "Authorities in Europe and North America have announced the dismantling of a criminal virtual private network (VPN) service used by criminal actors to obscure the origins of ransomware attacks, data theft, scanning, and denial-of-service attacks.\n\nThe disruption of First VPN Service was led by France and the Netherlands, with several other nations supporting the investigation since December",
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