You are the Chief Information Security Officer $($CISO$)$ of a major corporation. You are also a Certified Ethical Hacker $($CEH$).$ Your company comes under a devastating cyber$-$attack from a well$-$known foreign Black Hat hacker group. The Black Hats are successfully stealing your corporate intellectual property and your customer$$s sensitive financial data. You decide that the best course of action is to $$Hack Back$$ the Black Hat group to knock them offline and stop the attack. Which of the following is true?

Question $30$ options:

$$Hacking Back$$ is illegal, even when it is used as a protective measure against an ongoing successful attack.

The Council of Europe Agreement on Cybercrime states that you are only authorized to $$Hack Back$$ if you are a Certified Ethical Hacker $($CEH$).$

Because the attack is coming from a foreign entity and they are stealing your trade secrets$,$ you are authorized by the Economic Espionage Act to conduct the $$Hack Back$$ operation to stop the attack.

Title $10$ of the U$.$S$.$ Code authorizes any private citizen to $$Hack Back$$ when it is deemed necessary to protect their data.