The report said especially those employees “who may have valuable information about US critical infrastructure and vital government bureaucracy” are being targeted by foreign countries

Summary

Russia and China are reportedly targeting recently fired or vulnerable U.S. federal employees for recruitment, CNN reports, citing intelligence sources.

They aim to exploit mass layoffs under Trump and DOGE, especially looking for individuals with knowledge of critical infrastructure.

Recruitment efforts include social media outreach on LinkedIn, TikTok, and Reddit.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard condemned the report, calling affected employees “disloyal.” A CNN source warned that ignoring the issue could have serious national security consequences.

  • talEnglish
    441·
    2 days ago

    Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard condemned the report, calling affected employees “disloyal.”

    “Beatings will continue until morale improves.”

  • GingaNinga@lemmy.world
    38·
    2 days ago

    Thats actually pretty brilliant. Fire a bunch of important people/piss them off and take away their income then swoop in and offer these important and knowledgable people money for information and/or access. Who wouldn’t be disgruntled after all this BS?

      • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
        6·
        2 days ago

        There’s a movement here, started by the worst of the techbro ceos, (I won’t name it) who want to bring a doge style purge to Canada.

        If the conservatives win they will fire hundreds of thousands of fed employees. Canada, will also be lost.

  • regrub@lemmy.world
    292·
    2 days ago

    Loyalty works both ways. Hopefully the fired workers put their country first, even if it abandoned them.

  • ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world
    61·
    2 days ago

    I’d like to see links, or at least screenshots, to these supposed outreaches, looong before we start accusing people who would apparently be warning us of such recruitment efforts as disloyal. Sounds like it’s just fElons trying to justify their past imbecilic actions by post dating the firings with “and they’re disloyal, too!”

  • andallthat@lemmy.world
    21·
    1 day ago

    so… Russia and China are looking at things like US infrastructure, Social Security and health care and are saying “we need to learn how they did this, at all costs”?

    Edit: to be clear, this is not against the people who were laid off. They are the ones who took an underfunded system and kept it afloat thanks to their hard work. For that, I get why Russia or China would want them… But for the secrets? I’ll tell you the secret: it was them. And now they are being laid off by the Interplanetary Genius