{"id":1152986,"date":"2026-08-17T03:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1152986\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T03:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:53:11","slug":"u-s-takes-risky-bet-on-private-pirates-to-combat-cybercrime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1152986\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. takes risky bet on private \u2018pirates\u2019 to combat cybercrime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco \u2013 The United States will allow private companies to hack foreign cybercriminal groups, a seemingly unprecedented measure that is dividing experts who say it has potential to succeed or spiral out of control.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Wednesday that directed the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to allow certain U.S. companies to spy on and attack transnational criminal organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The White House justified the approach by citing the damage caused by ransomware, \u201csextortion\u201d and online fraud, which it said cost Americans more than $20 billion in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco \u2013 The United States will allow private companies to hack foreign cybercriminal groups, a seemingly unprecedented&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1152987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[3457,15986,1017,49,978,659],"class_list":["post-1152986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hacking","tag-u-s","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117108828146848749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1152987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}