The new order sweeps away decades of existing U.S. cybersecurity policy prohibiting private companies from conducting 'hack back' attacks or offensive cyber operations.

How each outlet headlined it

• TechCrunch

  The new order sweeps away decades of existing U.S. cybersecurity policy prohibiting private companies from conducting 'hack back' attacks or offensive cyber operations.
• TechCrunch

  In a first, US will allow some private firms to carry out cyberattacks
• Zack Whittaker

  New, by me: For the first time, the Trump administration says it's going to allow some vetted U.S. private companies to launch cyberattacks and surveillance operations against overseas criminals and hackers, like ransomware gangs. Ad-block bypass: web.archive.org/web/20260813...
• Decrypt

  White House Lets Private Firms Hack Cybercriminals—At Their Own Legal Risk
• The Verge left

  Cybersecurity companies will operate ‘under the control and oversight’ of the federal government. www.theverge.com/policy/97973...