Obama- and Biden-era cybersecurity rules will no longer be used to punish Americans and U.S. firms who engage in malicious cyber activities, nor used to deter election meddling, among other changes ordered up by President Trump on Friday. Trump’s order, the latest of his second-term cybersecurity mandates, rolls back an order that the State and Treasury departments have used to financially punish people who supported attacks that harmed U.S. national security. The late-Friday order “limits the application of cyber sanctions only to foreign malicious actors” and prevents “misuse against domestic political opponents and clarifying that sanctions do not apply to election-related activities,” according to an press release.
Trump limits use of cyber rules to punish US hackers, election meddlers – Defense One
