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Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0signed a memo on Wednesday that aims to give private companies the power to carry out offensive cyber-attacks against foreign criminal entities.<\/p>\n

The president \u2060signed a \u200bnational security presidential memorandum directing his administration to \u201cleverage the capability and innovation of the private sector to help conduct these \u2060cyber operations under the direction, control and authority of the US government\u201d, the White House said.<\/p>\n

The policy shift gives the private sector a role that has traditionally been reserved for government agencies, essentially deputizing companies in the fight against crime online. Trump\u2019s memo does not give private firms unlimited ability to conduct hacking operations, but instead would authorize \u201climited cyber operations at the direction of the US government\u201d.<\/p>\n

International concern over cyber-attacks has grown after the release of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models, which have shown that they can hack into outdated security systems. In the US, hackers\u00a0targeted critical infrastructure systems<\/a>\u00a0in several states earlier this year, resulting in disruptions at water facilities.<\/p>\n

The White House, in a fact sheet about \u2060the memo, cited ransomware attacks, financial frauds and other crimes run by foreign-based criminal organizations, \u200breferred to in the memo \u200cas \u201ctransnational criminal organizations\u201d (TCOs).<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has previously vowed to give private firms a larger role in cybersecurity operations. A\u00a0national cybersecurity policy<\/a>\u00a0released in March stated that the government would create incentives to \u201cunleash the private sector\u201d against foreign adversaries. These plans have faced\u00a0questions from legal experts<\/a>\u00a0on what sort of risks companies could face as they enmesh themselves in international digital conflicts.<\/p>\n

The memo, released on Wednesday, \u200ccreates a framework that encourages private sector companies to enter into agreements with other \u200cprivate entities, as well as federal, state, local, tribal and territorial agencies, to gather threat information on transnational criminal organizations and propose cyber operations to address those threats, the White House added.<\/p>\n

The memo directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the homeland security taskforce\u2019s national coordination center, to create a program \u201cto conduct specific \u200ccyber operations that disrupt foreign TCOs\u201d that will be overseen by the DHS and the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

Under the supervision of the federal government, participating \u200bcompanies, once vetted, will conduct \u201ccyber surveillance operations\u201d and \u201ccyber effects operations\u201d against specified targets, according to the memo.<\/p>\n

\u201cCyber effects includes the potential manipulation, disruption, denial, degradation or destruction of information systems, networks, physical or virtual infrastructure controlled by information systems, or information resident thereon,\u201d according to the \u2060memo.<\/p>\n

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Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump\u00a0signed a memo on Wednesday that aims to give private companies the power to carry out offensive cyber-attacks against foreign criminal entities. 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