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You can only retaliate if you can attribute the attack first and that might not be possible 100% of the time. The reason why this happened yet is because it is

by atoav 3y ago

You can only retaliate if you can attribute the attack first and that might not be possible 100% of the time. The reason why this happened yet is because it isn't very benefitial for the effort it would take. Any rouge state actor can use the Internet in their enemy territory for far more impacting operations (e.g. propaganda, psy ops). Terrorism would be a more realistic thing, but terrorists don't typically have submarines.

pipo234 3y ago
+1 Retaliation wrt. to "cyber security incidents" is seldomly a plausible deterrent, exactly because attribution is so hard. Consider a "simple" case like the Nordstream attacks; despite serious efforts there still is no conclusive attribution. Protection and mitigation are usually much more practical defenses than the threat of retaliation.