According to an article in Reuters, Russian hackers are accused of abusing VPNs. US and British authorities identify Unit 26165, the arm of Russia’s military spy agency, also accused of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election, as a source behind “widespread, distributed and anonymized brute force access attempts against hundreds of government and private sector targets”. None of the targets, mostly in the United States and Europe, were identified by name, but “included government offices, political parties, energy companies, law firms and media organizations”. “Russian hackers are abusing VPNs to hijack accounts, US and UK officials say” via Reuters