"Legislation introduced Monday night by Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, would build sweeping a framework across multiple federal agencies to identify, attribute and impose harsh reprisals against nation-state hackers and cybercrime groups. The 2025 Cyber Deterrence and Response Act would direct the National Cyber Director to designate foreign agencies, individuals and organizations that pose a cyber threat to U.S. interests."
"Cybersecurity firms and intelligence agencies use various techniques to identify hackers' ties to specific countries or other entities, though the process is not entirely consistent across organizations. The different monikers and labels that organizations use to designate and categorize the same groups can add to that inconsistency. Major cyber firms have recently worked to reassess and better align with each other on their naming conventions."
"The bill also authorizes "robust sanctions against designated actors, including asset blocking, financial restrictions, export controls, procurement prohibitions, visa bans and suspension of assistance," a statement from Pfluger's office said. The U.S. has undertaken many of these steps in recent years, including visa restrictions on people accused of misusing spyware tools."
The 2025 Cyber Deterrence and Response Act would establish a cross-agency framework to identify, attribute and punish nation-state hackers and cybercrime groups. The bill directs the National Cyber Director to designate foreign agencies, individuals and organizations posing cyber threats to U.S. interests. It would create a national attribution framework requiring agencies like Homeland Security, Justice and State to develop a uniform technical consensus, with support from private-sector and international partners. The measure acknowledges inconsistent attribution and naming across firms and agencies and authorizes robust sanctions including asset blocking, financial restrictions, export controls, procurement prohibitions, visa bans and suspension of assistance.
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