Pentagon denies stopping cyber operations against Russia, Bloomberg reports

The Pentagon has denied that the US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the stopping of cyber operations against Russia, Bloomberg informed on March 4, citing an unnamed older defense official.

Registration previously reported that the US Cyber Command was ordered to suspend the offensive Cyber and informational operations against Moscow. The news coincided with the president Donald Trump Efforts to negotiate the cessation of Russia’s war in Ukraine, given that critics claim to favor Moscow.

Experts in the field of cybersecurity have warned that such a move will benefit from one of the most persistent cyber opponents in America, who could weaken potentially US lever in both cyber and conventional military operations.

Russian hackers groups have engaged in various forms of cyber war throughout the ware Cyberattacks against Ukraine, hacks of Civil infrastructure in Europe and interference in Foreign elections.

But according to a source quoted by BloombergHegseth did not cancel and did not suspend cyber operations against Russia. He didn’t even issue orders to reverse this priority, the source said.

The US Cyber command supervises 135 teams of “cyber mission forces”.

The units involved in offensive operations are cyber fighting teams, according to Bloomberg.