Is counter-attack justified against a state-sponsored cyber attack? It's a legal grey area
- Written by Sandeep Gopalan, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic Innovation) & Professor of Law, Deakin University
The US has charged and sanctioned nine Iranians and an Iranian company for cyber attacks.Parmida Rahimi/Flickr, CC BY-SA
On March 23, the US Department of Justice commenced perhaps the largest prosecution of a state-sponsored cyber attack. It indicted nine Iranians for carrying out:
a coordinated campaign of cyber intrusions into computer systems...