Analysis: CyberCom sent a message by taking down a troll farm on Election Day. Was Russia listening?
Voters wait in Brunswick, Maine, to receive ballots to vote in the midterm election on Nov. 2, 2018.
While it was public knowledge that ramping up offensive strikes in cyberspace is a central tenet of the Trump administration’s new cyber strategy, taking credit for a specific move against an adversary takes it up a notch. But just shutting down a Russian troll farm for a couple days may not be enough to convince Russia not to interfere in the 2020 presidential contest,“I think it was worth doing,” said Joel Brenner, a former senior counsel at the National Security Agency. “But it’s likely to have a very slight deterrent effect because I don’t see any penalty that’s being imposed.”
“Our opponents didn’t think we’d ever do anything to them and they sort of had carte blanche to get away with murder [in cyberspace],” said Lewis, who now leads the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank’s technology policy program. “You need to show you’re willing to use these capabilities and this does that.”
That’s because China’s bad behavior in cyberspace looks very different from Russia’s, which makes it tough to glean clear lessons from the Russia counterstrike. While Russia threatens destructive attacks against U.S. infrastructure and influence operations that undermine elections, China is focused on stealing U.S. companies’ intellectual property and trade secrets.
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