The United States has suspended cyber -aggressive operations against Russia, according to reports, in the midst of Trump’s efforts to grant Moscow concessions to end the war in Ukraine.
The reported mandate to stop hacking business with US launch against Russia was authorized by US Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, according to The file. The new guidance affects businesses conducted by the US Cyber Command, a part of the Ministry of Defense that focuses on piracy and cyberspace businesses, but does not apply to espionage operations conducted by the National Security Service.
The mandate mentioned has been confirmed since then by The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The mandate was delivered before the Friday Oval Office meeting between US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to reports. The New York Times said the mandate came as part of a broader attempt to attract Russian President Vladimir Putin to talks on the country’s ongoing war in Ukraine.
The American Cyber Command and the Pentagon did not answer TechCrunch questions, but a senior defense official told the archive that he did not “discuss the information, plans or businesses”.
The guardian He also says that Trump’s administration has signaled that he no longer sees Russian hackers as a threat to cyberspace and reportedly ordered the CISA CISA not to mention Russian threats anymore. The newspaper reports a recent note raising new priorities for CISA, including the threats facing China and the protection of local systems, but the note did not mention Russia. Cisa officials reportedly were orally informed that they had to stop any work on Russian cyber threats.
The Ministry of Interior, which oversees CISA, refused to report a statement to TechCrunch.
Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary of the Internal Security, said the note does not come from Trump’s administration and that “Cisa remains committed to dealing with all cyberspace threats in critical US infrastructure, including Russia”.
“There has been no change in our attitude or priority on this front,” McLaughlin told TechCrunch.
The reported shift of US policy from Trump’s administration to Russia comes a few months after the US information community said Russia is creating a “constant cyberspace” in the United States. In his own Annual threat assessmentThe US has warned that Russia’s external intelligence service or SVR is still targeting US government agencies and critical infrastructure, such as underwater cables and industrial control systems.
In recent years, the US government has also taken action against a Russian cyberspace: it has successfully disrupted the ransomware group infrastructure associated with Russia ,,,, Discovered millions in ransom payments paid to Russian hackersAnd it aims at some of the most notorious Russian hackers with categories and sanctions.
