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The legal minefield of hacking back


International laws restrict hacking back across borders, as unauthorized access risks violating sovereignty and legal frameworks.

If a company discovers they’re being targeted from servers in Russia, China, or North Korea, they could technically trace and respond to the attack but doing so may violate the sovereignty of that nation and potentially their own country’s laws. Active defense, properly understood, involves measures taken within your own network perimeter, like enhanced monitoring, deception technologies like honeypots, and automated response systems that isolate threats. This is why firms should focus on operating under frameworks that prevent these scenarios entirely, like scaling bug bounty programs that channel security efforts into authorized, constructive activities.

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