Purported shift at CISA away from reporting on Russian threats
Shortly after The Report issued its report, The Guardian reported that the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company (CISA) despatched an inside memo setting out new priorities for the company, together with China however excluding Russia. One supply mentioned analysts on the company have been verbally knowledgeable that they have been to not comply with or report on Russian threats.
The purported shift at CISA follows a speech earlier than a UN cybersecurity working group final week by Liesyl Franz, deputy assistant secretary for worldwide cybersecurity on the State Division, that highlighted how the US is worried by threats perpetrated by some states however solely named China and Iran, with no point out of Russia. Franz additionally didn’t point out the LockBit ransomware group, which the US has known as out in previous UN boards as essentially the most prolific ransomware group on the earth.
In a put up on X, DHS denied The Guardian’s report, saying, “CISA’s mission is to defend in opposition to all cyber threats to U.S. Important Infrastructure, together with from Russia. There was no change in our posture. Any reporting on the contrary is pretend and undermines our nationwide security.”
