‼️ CISA employees have been told to stop tracking Russian cyber threats, according to The Guardian. A recent agency priorities memo "did not mention Russia." https://t.co/TKVl2Gt2QJ

This would be a seismic shift for the agency. pic.twitter.com/AweJavUWmh

— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) February 28, 2025

The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News https://t.co/MOyYj5TTh4

— The Record From Recorded Future News (@TheRecord_Media) February 28, 2025

Russia sees talks with US as an opening to rebuild its spy networks, officials sayhttps://t.co/puMOsRhdMC

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) February 28, 2025

Recently came across a pretty neat technique to silently load (malicious) VS Code extensions using its bootstrapping and portability features. Thought it was interesting enough to warrant my first blog post in 4 years 🙃

Check it out 👇https://t.co/fLTkIaDvBr

— Cas van Cooten (@chvancooten) February 28, 2025

After this post we received a follow-up with the individual who posted this image on social media.

This person works at a small US-based car dealership. They don't have an IT department. They don't know how it happened. They were told to remain at home until otherwise specified https://t.co/NGJpvsTv91

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) February 28, 2025