The US military has dramatically stepped up its secret hacking of foreign computer networks in a new effort to keep China, Russia, Iran and other adversaries on their heels, current and former US officials tell NBCNews.
. U.S. officials have said that those countries have for years planted malware that could turn out the lights in parts of the U.S.
"The other side thought they could just walk all over us," said Jim Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who consults frequently with the U.S. government."We do need to engage. There was a decision in this administration last year to impose consequences." The new approach was empowered by language Congress inserted last year in a defense bill, which provided new authorities for offensive military cyber operations. Last August, Trump last year signed a classified order known as National Security Presidential Memorandum 13, which officials say authorized Cyber Command to take action abroad without specific presidential approval.
But that analogy breaks down quickly, Daniels and others say, because the U.S. Air Force doesn't fly a show of force in Russian or Chinese air space. And when the Air Force drops bombs, it discloses that fact, unless it was a clandestine special operations mission. And even in that case, the public knows generally what sorts of missions those are, and under what legal authorities — typically, counterterrorism operations under the post-9-11 authorization for the use of military force.
The operations, the official said, are often designed to seize control of adversary computer networks and"hold them at risk" — meaning create the potential to disrupt or destroy them.
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