Sec. 6508. DEEMING RANSOMWARE THREATS TO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AS NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE PRIORITY
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## SEC. 6508 DEEMING RANSOMWARE THREATS TO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AS NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE PRIORITY ###
(a)Definitions In this section: ####
(1)Appropriate committees of Congress The term “**appropriate committees of Congress**” means— #####
(A)the congressional intelligence committees; #####
(B)the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and #####
(C)the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Homeland Security, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. ####
(2)Critical infrastructure 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)). ###
(b)Sense of Congress That Ransomware Threats to Critical Infrastructure Should Be a National Intelligence Priority It is the sense of Congress that the Director of National Intelligence should deem ransomware threats to critical infrastructure a national intelligence priority as part of the National Intelligence Priorities Framework. ###
(c)Report ####
(1)In general 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 appropriate committees of Congress a report on the implications of the ransomware threat to United States national security. ####
(2)Contents The report submitted under paragraph
(1)shall address the following: #####
(A)Identification of individuals, groups, and entities who pose the most significant threat, including attribution to individual ransomware attacks whenever possible. #####
(B)Locations from which individuals, groups, and entities conduct ransomware attacks. #####
(C)The infrastructure, tactics, and techniques ransomware actors commonly use. #####
(D)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. ####
(3)Form The report submitted under paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
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DEEMING RANSOMWARE THREATS TO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AS NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE PRIORITY
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