President Donald Trump gave marching orders to federal agencies Wednesday to partner with private companies to go after criminal organizations that conduct ransomware attacks, phishing campaigns, and financial fraud against Americans.
In a National Security Presidential Memorandum, the White House directed the Homeland Security Task Force’s National Coordination Center, a strikeforce created to combat transnational crime organizations, to build a new program that will lean on the private sector for conducting cyber operations to disrupt foreign criminal organizations.
Private sector companies will help gather and exchange threat information and propose cyber operations to neutralize them, according to …
