https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180612185130.htm

The type of attacker -- whether a state or a non-state actor such as a terrorist group -- determines whether credit is claimed for a cyberattack and how it is communicated, according to the study, "Rethinking Secrecy in Cyberspace: The Politics of Voluntary Attribution," forthcoming in the Journal of Global Security Studies. Co-authors of the study are Evan Perkoski, assistant professor of political science at UConn, and Michael Poznansky, assistant professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Affairs.

Among the findings of the study: