Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe"

The scanning activity observed from First VPN IP addresses was “consistent with adversary efforts to identify open ports, services, and network configurations,” the FBI said. The agency said that “VPN infrastructure may be used to enumerate systems within a target network following initial access,” and that “VPN exit nodes can facilitate password spraying or brute force attempts against exposed services such as SSH, RDP, or web applications.” Users “informed that they have been identified” …