U.S. Sent Cyber Team to Lithuania Over Russia Hacking Threat (1)

The U.S. rushed cyber forces to Lithuania to help defend against online threats that have risen since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an Army general said Wednesday.

“Our deployment in Lithuania was directly related to the ongoing crisis in the Ukraine,” Major General Joe Hartman, who commands the U.S. Cyber National Mission Force, told reporters at a roundtable interview in Nashville.

The so-called hunt forward missions involve cyber teams going to nations where they’ve been invited by partner countries, where they scan networks with the goal of building the host countries’ resilience and share any new information about threats with ...