- The new major legislation commits more than a billion dollars to American cyber-offensives
- We do not know exactly what it is reference, but it will most likely target China
- This comes after major cybersecurity cuts
The historic legislation of President Trump “ One Big Beautiful Bill ” includes plans aimed at initiating $ 1 billion over the next four years on “offensive cyber-operations”.
Cyber-offensive operations generally include the exploitation of defects in software to hack devices or deploy spy software, intelligence collection or data collection on Internet traffic (among others).
We do not know which tools or software would be eligible, but the legislation notes that funds would be to improve and improve the capacities of the American Indo-Pacific command, potentially focusing on the largest geopolitical rival in the United States, China.
Switching focus
This comes despite the mass federal layoffs according to which a former Cybersecurity Director of NSA warned will have a “devastating impact on cybersecurity” and an unprecedented reduction of more than $ 1.2 billion in the federal cybersecurity budget – although certain reductions were partially reversed because a federal court ruled on the dismissal of 130 illegal workers.
The American government recently announced a break in cyber-offensive operations against Russia, which highlights the objective of the administration far from Eastern Europe and China, in particular given the current trade against the State.
Following this, the American Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Agency (CISA) has reaffirmed its commitment to defend against all cyber-state, although continuous efforts aimed at undermining and weakening the capacities of cybersecurity teams, also counterproductive that could be in the protection of American infrastructure.
Senator Ron Wyden, member of the senatorial intelligence committee confirmed Techcrunch The Trump administration, “has reduced the financing of cybersecurity and government technology and left our country, open to attacks by foreign hackers.”
“The expansion of the hacking of the United States government will invite reprisals – not only against federal agencies, but also rural hospitals, local governments and private companies which do not have a chance against pirates of nation state.”
