The CIA is running a secret cyberwar including Russian-style hack-and-leak operations with little or no oversight, US officials have warned.
The covert operations are largely targeted at Iran, China, Russia, and North Korea, say anonymous sources, and have included the public disclosure of 15 million debit card details belonging to customers of Iranian banks, according to a report by Yahoo! News.
The approval for the operations stems from a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) signed in 2018 by President Trump which has long been known about but the contents of which remain top secret. It has been officially described as authorizing “offensive cyber operations.”
At the time, the relevant memo, NSPM 13, caused serious report secret cyberwar little oversight after trump government officials
