The United States said it would stop offensive cyber operations against Russia

The United States has suspended its offensive cyber operations against Russia, according to reports, amid the efforts of the Trump administration to grant Moscow concessions to end the war in Ukraine.

The informed order to stop piracy operations launched by the United States against Russia was authorized by the Secretary of Defense of the United States, Pete Hegseth, according to The record. The new guide affects the operations carried out by the US cybernetic command., A division of the Department of Defense centered on piracy and operations in cyberspace, but does not apply to the espionage operations carried out by the National Security Agency.

The informed order has been confirmed since then by The New York Times and The Washington Post.

The order was transmitted before the Friday Oval Office meeting between the president of the United States, Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to reports. The New York Times said the instruction was part of a broader effort to attract Russian President Vladimir Putin to talk about the current war in Ukraine.

The US cybernetic command. And the Pentagon did not answer TechCrunch’s questions, but a senior defense official told the registration not to “discuss cyber intelligence, plans or operations.”

The guardian He also reports that the Trump administration has indicated that Russian computer pirates no longer sees as a threat of cyber security, and according to reports, he ordered the US cybersecurity agency CISA to no longer report on Russian threats. The newspaper cites a recent memorandum that establishes new priorities for the CISA, including the threats faced by China and the protection of local systems, but the memorandum did not mention Russia. According to reports, CISA employees were verbally informed that they should stop any work on Russian cyber threats.

The National Security Department, which Supervisa CISA denied the report in a statement to Techcrunch.

Tricia McLaughlin, Undersecretary of National Security, said that the memorandum did not come from the Trump administration and that “CISA is still committed to addressing all cyber threats towards the critical infrastructure of the United States, even Russia.”

“There have been no changes in our position or priority on this front,” McLaughlin told TechCrunch.

The change reported in the policy of the United States by the Trump administration to Russia occurs only a few months after the United States intelligence community said Russia raises a “lasting cybernetics threat” for the United States. In his Annual Evaluation of ThreatsThe United States warned that Russia’s foreign intelligence service, or SVR, continues to attack United States government agencies and critical infrastructure, such as submarine cables and industrial control systems.

In recent years, the United States government has also taken measures against a strip of Russian cybercriminals: it has been successfully interrupted the infrastructure of ransomware groups linked to Russia, Millions recovered in rescue payments paid to Russian computer piratesand attacked some of the most notorious Russian computer pirates with accusations and sanctions.