The quickest way to launch the cyber equivalent of a nuclear war is for the targets of cyberattacks to try to hack back against their tormentors. The debate over that has raged for decades, with a majority of security experts arguing that the difficulties of attribution and the dangers of escalating retaliatory counterattacks make hacking back a losing proposition. A recent paper by father and son, Jeremy and Ariel Rabkin, titled “Hacking Back Without Cracking Up,” seeks to make that case. Annual losses to American businesses from criminal hacking were estimated at $100 billion two years ago.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3104768/a-gentler-way-to-hack-back.html