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President signed memorandum giving private sector a role in fighting ‘transnational criminal organizations’ Donald Trump signed a memo on Wednesday that aims to give private companies the power to carry out offensive cyber-attacks against foreign criminal entities. The president signed a national security presidential memorandum directing his administration to “leverage the capability and innovation of the private sector to help conduct these cyber operations under the direction, control and authority of the US government”, the White House said. Continue reading...
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President signed memorandum giving private sector a role in fighting ‘transnational criminal organizations’ Donald Trump signed a memo on Wednesday that aims to give private companies the power to carry out offensive cyber-attacks against foreign criminal entities. The president signed a national security presidential memorandum directing his administration to “leverage the capability and innovation of the private sector to help conduct these cyber operations under the direction, control and authority of the US government”, the White House said. Continue reading...
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AIPROPX has consolidated 2 reports from 2 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Donald Trump empowers US private companies to conduct cyber-attacks.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — Other and UK.
The earliest report in this entry came from The Guardian US (Aug 13, 2026, 19:21 UTC); the most recent came from theguardian.com (Aug 13, 2026, 19:42 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 1 named entity is referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “private companies”.
2 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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