Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon,

The effort aims to exploit the Trump administration’s planned mass layoffs across federal agencies, according to sources familiar with

The Russian Federation and China are attempting to recruit US federal employees, with a particular focus on those who have been laid off due to significant job cuts, according to CNN. Anonymous sources familiar with recent US intelligence data told the publication that foreign adversaries,