Before the invasion of Ukraine, the United States had considered Russia as the main danger of computer security. However, it seems that the name no longer applies. The pass occurs when Trump tries to normalize relations with Russia and President Putin and follows a stormy exchange with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House.
According to an American official who knows the question (during registration), the new Minister of Defense, Pete Hegesh, asked the U.S. Information Command to cancel “any planning against Russia, including offensive digital measures.
The manager said Hegseth commanded the command of General Luftwaffe, Tim Hagh, at the end of February. The order does not apply to the National Security Agency, which also directs Hagh.
This is the second accident that indicates that the United States do not consider Russia more than a threat of computer security. Liesyl Franz, deputy secretary of international computer security at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs last week, said in a speech that the United States were concerned about looking for certain countries through computer crimides that call only China and Iran, not from Russia.
The Guardian writes that a current memorandum at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) is new priorities for the agency. While China has been mentioned as a digital threat, Russia has not been mentioned in the note.
A source that is familiar with the case has informed the publication that the agencies analysts had been verbally informed that they had not followed Russian threats or not, although previously they had concentrated on the agency.
“Russia and China are our greatest opponents. Many computer security employees have been released in all cuts in different agencies. Our systems are not protected and our opponents know it,” said the person.
“People say that Russia wins. Putin is now inside,” he added.
A person who has already worked in American working groups. “Do not reduce the importance of China, Iran or North Korea, but Russia is at least the most important cybernetic threat to China,” they said.
The spokesman for DHS Trice McLaughlin declared in a declaration that Cisa continues to face all the infrastructures of cyber men in the United States, including Russia. “Our attitude or priority has not changed on this front,” said McLaughlin.
In recent years, many pirates have been supported by Russia who have attacked the infrastructures of the United States. Last April, such a group intended for the multiple water system, in the north of Texas. Experts think it was a test to see how vulnerable these types of objectives are and how they react after an attack.
In 2021, Microsoft warned that more than half of all computer attacks in the national state come from Russia and that Russian computer hackers succeed in one of the three attacks.
