Re:America tells private firms to "hack back"
by dathinab on Monday March 23, 2026 @07:45PM
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they don't
worse hacker do like using jump hosts
so wherever you "hack back" to has a good chance to be another victim
it's also a good point to remind people that most cases of "knowing who was it but not catching the people behind it" are either wild guesses without proof or the attacker leaving recognizable traces (like a literally "it has been us <group>" note /not a joke). But the problem with that is any other
advanced enough hacker group/apt could also have made it look like that...
worse hacker do like using jump hosts
so wherever you "hack back" to has a good chance to be another victim
it's also a good point to remind people that most cases of "knowing who was it but not catching the people behind it" are either wild guesses without proof or the attacker leaving recognizable traces (like a literally "it has been us <group>" note /not a joke). But the problem with that is any other advanced enough hacker group/apt could also have made it look like that...