>Attribution of cyberattacks is hard, borderline impossible, without non-technical corroborating evidence. Intelligence agency budget increases and sky-high co

>Attribution of cyberattacks is hard, borderline impossible, without non-technical corroborating evidence. Intelligence agency budget increases and sky-high consultancy fees are going to be more forthcoming when it's "a scary nation-state" behind an attack rather than a couple of teenagers or a band of cyber-criminals. Also, Russia, after North Korea, does seem to be everybody's favorite bogeyman these days. Intelligence agencies and security consultants will have to balance potential reputation risk as well, of course (if it comes out that they were wrong it's quite embarrassing), but if attributional evidence is weak then it pays to pick the bogeyman.