The White House has released a new National Security Presidential Memorandum that opens a formal path for vetted private cybersecurity firms to help go after foreign cybercrime. Any company brought in would operate under Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice oversight.
With that approval, companies could be authorized on a case-by-case basis to conduct cyber surveillance and cyber effects operations against overseas ransomware gangs, phishing networks, and fraud operations. The focus is especially on foreign safe havens where arrests, extraditions, or direct law enforcement action can be difficult.
That’s a real shift from the U.S. government’s long-standing reluctance to let private actors do much beyond defense and incident response.
If you follow U.S. cyber policy, keep an eye on this one. Washington says cybercrime caused more than $4 billion in U.S. losses in 2020. Many of the strongest defenders sit outside government, most of the infrastructure being targeted is privately run,
and this move lines up with a broader 2026 strategy alongside anti-fraud and National Security Systems efforts, while adding to sanctions and cooperation aimed at threats Washington has tied to China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
You should also expect intense scrutiny around legality, ethics, oversight, liability, hack-back limits, cross-border mistakes, retaliation,
and the hard-to-predict consequences of letting private firms move from defense into disruption.
You can read the memorandum through official White House channels.
Author: Anthony John Padilla
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