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$20.877 billion in losses reported to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2025, across 1,008,597 complaints and running 26% above the 2024 figure, is the aggregate the White House put behind President Donald Trump's decision to sign a National Security Presidential Memorandum authorizing vetted private U.S.
companies to conduct offensive cyber operations against certain foreign criminal organizations. The Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security will jointly oversee those operations.
Program leaders have 60 days from August 12 to write the procedural rules that will make the framework executable. Two operation classes, one written approval gate The memorandum establishes two categories of activity.
Cyber Surveillance Operations allow covert access to targeted computer systems for intelligence collection, with participants expected to remain undetected.
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