US sent cyber team to Lithuania over threat of Russian hacking

Hartman insisted that the US operations in Ukraine and Lithuania were limited to friendly networks and should not trigger an escalatory response from Russia. — Reuters

The US 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 US Cyber National Mission Force, told reporters at a roundtable interview in Nashville.