There are countries that do not have internet laws and if they do sometimes choose to ignore them. If I recall correctly it was not difficult for the Pakistani police to follow the cyber trail of the murderers of Daniel Pearl. If Pakistan can do this any country can do this.
The cyber arena is thought of as the Wild West, I don't believe that is necessarily the case.
There is no excuse for cyber attacks or ransomwear attacks. They can be traced and people held responsible. I would think if the attacks are from within the USA it should be even easier. But, I remind that while we are waiting for Russian hackers to decend on the USA to cause problems, fining Russia through the banks might work to begin enforcement of hackers and stop them from causing problems.
I would think if ransomwear were traced to Russia it would be the government consenting to the attacks and reaping the ransom.
By Alexander Panetta
The director of the FBI (click here) compares this moment to 9/11: A time of reckoning about a threat that's increasingly proven its ability to destabilize society.
He's referring to cyberattacks.
Recent digital ransom attacks have accelerated an acknowledgment in Washington that the current trajectory is untenable.
That's after meat plants were shuttered temporarily including in Canada this week; after cars lined up at empty U.S. gas stations when a major pipeline was hacked.
A hacker recently tampered with chemical levels at a water-treatment plant in Florida. Nuclear and other power facilities, voting systems, political parties, hospitals and governments have all been compromised.
"This is our new normal," said Nicole Perlroth, a cybersecurity reporter at The New York Times and author of a new book on the history of cyberattacks....
