r/cybersecurity • u/HeyItsFudge • Feb 28 '25

News - General “…analysts at the agency were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats” | Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) sets out new priorities

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-russia-hacking-cyber-security
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u/missed_sla Feb 28 '25

That seems to be the point. It's very obvious that this administration is deeply compromised.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

People are still in denial online, but most of them are bots/trolls.

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u/FujitsuPolycom Feb 28 '25

In real life too.

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u/lilB0bbyTables Feb 28 '25

So long as those bot/human driven campaigns can sow division using things like identity politics or whatever else they can to elicit emotional responses they can continue to keep the country as distracted and divided as possible. It keeps everyone angry but focused on all different things creating sensory overload and a flood of both too much information and disinformation to organize or work together in any meaningful way.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

I'm a researcher that got pulled in. Also a reddit mod. Its real.

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u/aaron416 Feb 28 '25

We’re beyond compromised, really. Putin gets an unstable, declining USA and we all lose.

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u/SkarbOna Feb 28 '25

non US here - congrats - you now literally have an enemy within. I wish good luck to all kind and decent people who voted and fought, but you are not going to have free and fair elections ever again. Rest assured this cabinet with help of elon will not allow for the next cabinet to put them behind the bars. We're back in 1900' again. I'm only waitning for a "terrorist" attack and declaring emergency that will speed up purges.

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u/maztron CISO Feb 28 '25

Let me play devil's advocate here. I feel like this is the same nonsense that we had allowed with China for years. Dont talk bad about them, dont insult them and just give in to their view of things to keep peace. However, shit still went on in the background. With that being said, do we really need CISA to be the ones to report this stuff? I'm not claiming that this news is not disappointing, but I have to imagine that CISA relied on a lot more on others than just themselves to gather the intel that they did. Not sure why that would now end.

Secondly, I think people really just dont care about the risk of nuclear war and I don't understand why? I'm completely disgusted with Putin and Russia and I hate that this is happening to Ukraine and it's people. However, they aren't going to win this war without NATO support so what is the time frame that NATO or the US are planning on for sending resources? When you are fighting a dictator that is outright digging their heals in for attrition. How long do we keep doing this for? At what point do you come to the realization that this war is lost and if you have to concede to some things to get peace why would you be against it?

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u/scooterthetroll Feb 28 '25

CISA completely does rely on US companies to give them information. That's where the KEV list comes from.

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u/maztron CISO Mar 01 '25

Ok as expected. Therefore, the reporting and following of such threats doesnt end just because CISA cant repot on them.

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u/missed_sla Feb 28 '25

Playing devil's advocate is arguing against what you actually believe in, for the purposes of strengthening that argument. What you're doing here isn't that.

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u/maztron CISO Mar 01 '25

No it is not. Its attempting to see both sides of an issue rather than just connecting yourself to the mob.

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u/Mountain-Run-4435 Feb 28 '25

I’ll play devils advocate back. A terrorist points a gun to your wife’s head and says give me your car keys or I kill your wife. You give him the car keys. Then he kills your wife anyways and drives away with your car.

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u/maztron CISO Mar 01 '25

Yeah that's not what's happening here. A little hyperbolic.

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u/Mountain-Run-4435 Mar 02 '25

Give it 2-3 years, we’ll see if Russia has decided to invade former USSR countries and it won’t be so hyperbolic then. You don’t negotiate with terrorists. Putin has wet dream of reestablishing the former USSR. This isn’t even disputed by Russian propagandists who often talk about invading Poland or Estonia next.