There is actually some talk in the cyber policy space about this topic. [1] In a sense, all the spam, ransomware, and banking trojans that are thrown by other n

There is actually some talk in the cyber policy space about this topic. [1] In a sense, all the spam, ransomware, and banking trojans that are thrown by other nation states (or their sanctioned criminal groups) raise the noise floor for what U.S. and allies need to address. This helps mask high-skill high-impact attacks (0days) since everyone is trying to figure out how to get their employees to not click spam emails. The U.S. is kinda missing out on creating this noise for our adversaries to deal with. 1. https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/october/grant-cyber-letters-marque-manage-hack-backs https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/october/gran...