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Executive Order 14390

Combating Cybercrime, Fraud, and Predatory Schemes Against American Citizens

This executive order directs multiple Cabinet departments to combat transnational cybercrime, fraud, and predatory schemes targeting Americans—including scam centers, ransomware, sextortion, and financial fraud often backed by foreign regimes. It mandates reviews and action plans to create a new operational cell for interagency coordination, establishes a Victims Restoration Program, and authorizes diplomatic consequences including sanctions, visa restrictions, and trade penalties against nations that tolerate such criminal activity.

Federal Register Open PDF 91 FR 12051

Impact dates

  1. 47d ago

    Action plan submission to President with TCO identification and NCC operational cell creation

  2. AG recommendation on Victims Restoration Program

  3. Cabinet review of operational, technical, diplomatic, and regulatory frameworks

Key directives

  • Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, AG, and DHS to review frameworks within 60 days and submit action plan within 120 days
  • Create operational cell within NCC (established by EO 14159) to coordinate federal cybercrime disruption efforts
  • AG to prioritize prosecutions of cyber-enabled fraud and sextortion schemes
  • DHS/CISA to partner with NCC for SLTT training and technical assistance
  • AG to recommend Victims Restoration Program within 90 days
  • Secretary of State to engage foreign governments, apply consequences including sanctions, visa restrictions, trade penalties, and expulsion of complicit diplomats

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • EO takes effect March 6, 2026
  • NCC operational cell authorized for creation

Near term (90d)

  • 60-day deadline: Cabinet review of frameworks to combat TCOs (due ~May 5, 2026)
  • 90-day deadline: AG recommendation on Victims Restoration Program (due ~June 4, 2026)
  • 120-day deadline: Action plan submission to President (due ~July 4, 2026)

Long term

  • Potential establishment of Victims Restoration Program
  • Operational cell coordination with private sector and SLTT partners
  • Ongoing international diplomatic pressure and consequences for complicit nations

Risks & tensions

  • Trade penalties and sanctions could escalate diplomatic conflicts with countries hosting scam centers (notably Southeast Asian nations)
  • 'Secretary of War' usage is non-standard (position abolished 1947); likely intended to mean Secretary of Defense, creating implementation uncertainty
  • Victims Restoration Program faces legal and practical hurdles around asset recovery from foreign TCOs
  • Private sector information sharing raises potential privacy and liability concerns
  • Offensive cyber actions mentioned but not defined, creating ambiguity about authorities and escalation risks
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