The United States government is investing tens of millions of dollars each year on offensive hacking operations in order to exploit vulnerabilities in the computers of its adversaries, Reuters reports.. According to an in-depth article published Friday by journalist Joseph Menn, the US and its Department of Defense contractors are increasingly pursuing efforts to hack the computers of foreign competitors, in turn exposing a rarely discussed aspect of the nation The link for this article located at RT is no longer available. . The federal administration is allocating substantial resources towards aggressive cyber strategies to exploit vulnerabilities in adversarial networks for enhanced online security.. US Offensive Hacking, Cyber Operations Funding, Government Security Investments, Adversarial Exploitation. . Dave Wreski
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