A new White House memo signed by U.S. President Donald Trump instructs the National Coordination Center (NCC) to establish a program that allows private sector companies to leverage their "innovative capabilities" against foreign Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs). The memo states that partnering with vetted United States companies subject to Federal Government oversight will enhance America's ability to counter TCO threats and combat transnational cybercrime, fraud, and other predatory schemes. The NCC is tasked with creating a program that enables authorized companies to conduct two types of operations against TCOs: cyber surveillance operations, which can access sensitive data without authorization from the owner or operator; and cyber effects operations, which can result in disruption, denial, degradation, or destruction of information systems, networks, or infrastructure.
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control. This includes deploying ransomware and malware, phishing attacks, financial fraud, sextortion, pig butchering scams, and impersonation attempts. Meanwhile, Germany's draft legislation allows its intelligence agencies to dismantle hostile servers, disrupt foreign cyber networks, and hack back against state-sponsored hackers and sabotage supply chains.
