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White House directs NCC private-sector offensive cyber program

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The White House directed the NCC to stand up a 60-day program for vetted U.S. companies to conduct approved cyber surveillance and cyber effects operations against foreign Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs), widening federal offensive cyber reach. The program would let authorized firms support disruption of cybercrime, fraud, and other predatory schemes under federal direction and oversight. The memo adds guardrails for U.S. persons and U.S.-located systems, but the new authority still raises legal and security risk because private disruption actions are generally restricted without court authorization.

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  1. 14.08.2026 12:38 2 articles · 3d ago

    White House memo directs NCC to launch vetted private-sector cyber operations program

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    U.S. President Donald Trump signed a White House memo directing the National Coordination Center (NCC) to establish, within 60 days, a program for vetted U.S. companies to conduct approved cyber surveillance operations and cyber effects operations against foreign Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) under federal direction and oversight. The memo says participants must stop any operation that exceeds approved parameters, including targeting a U.S. person or U.S.-located or U.S.-controlled information systems, and must alert the NCC so the Department of Justice can be notified.

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