Question --- This would be legit, if the cyberattacker is well known and precisely identified (probably as another state's institution/army/secret service). In any other case a state can decide to bomb another state/region just because...without substantial evidence who was behind the cyberattack...or fake cyberattack can serve just as a "political" argument for the conventional strike. And what if the cyberattack was organized by private group of hackers (let's imagine Russian hackers attacking US institutions) due to some teenage-ideological reasons (even such as watching too much patriotic old movies or youtube videos with WWII thematic or playing video games as Counter-Strike). In such case, will the retribution conventional attack to another state be justified?

Source author: Vladimir Nikolov vladimir984@yahoo.com