The FBI has identified ‘First VPN Service’ as a criminal anonymization platform active since 2014, linked to ransomware groups and used to conceal intrusion activity including credential abuse, network reconnaissance, and denial-of-service attacks. Any organization with internet-facing systems is potentially exposed, as threat actors use this infrastructure to mask their origin IP addresses and evade attribution during active campaigns. The primary business risk is ransomware deployment and operational disruption enabled by attackers who can bypass IP-based detection controls.