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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · S. 4443 (Reported in Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United S... · Sec. 514

Sec. 514. Deeming ransomware threats to critical infrastructure a national intelligence priority

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In this section, the term critical infrastructure has the meaning given such term in subsection
(e)of the Critical Infrastructures Protection Act of 2001 ( 42 U.S.C. 5195c(e) ). The Director of National Intelligence, pursuant to the provisions of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3001 et seq. ), the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 ( Public Law 108–458 ), section 1.3(b)(17) of Executive Order 12333 ( 50 U.S.C. 3001 note; relating to United States intelligence activities), as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act, and National Security Presidential Directive–26 (February 24, 2003; relating to intelligence priorities), as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act, shall deem ransomware threats to critical infrastructure a national intelligence priority component to the National Intelligence Priorities Framework. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall, in consultation with the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, submit to the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives a report on the implications of the ransomware threat to United States national security. The report submitted under paragraph
(1)shall address the following: Identification of individuals, groups, and entities who pose the most significant threat, including attribution to individual ransomware attacks whenever possible. Locations from which individuals, groups, and entities conduct ransomware attacks. The infrastructure, tactics, and techniques ransomware actors commonly use. Any relationships between the individuals, groups, and entities that conduct ransomware attacks and their governments or countries of origin that could impede the ability to counter ransomware threats. Intelligence gaps that have impeded, or currently are impeding, the ability to counter ransomware threats. The report submitted under paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
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