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.

  • @andallthat
    1•22 hours 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