Experts raise doubts whether NSA has successfully deployed an automated hack-back system known as MonsterMind. MonsterMind would look for traffic patterns indicating known or suspected attacks. Analyst: “We don’t believe it’s feasible to build this kind of program with current technology” Cybersecurity expert: “One of the real problems about any attack tool is to make sure it is limited to what you actually want it to do” MonsterMind’s inability to attribute the attacker because intrusions often are routed through computers in innocent third countries.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/experts-raise-doubts-about-monstermind-a-7201