> What is to stop those trojans from wiping the disks?
Because they want to do something creative and clever with those breached systems, instead of of just recursively deleting everything, which would be the best thing to do IMHO.
Threat of retaliation (in various possible ways, not just hacking them back)
Edit: Would a cyberattack trigger Article 5 of NATO? Not sure.
Nothing.
One hopes that the government is competent enough to have backups of the important data...
> What is to stop those trojans from wiping the disks?
Because they want to do something creative and clever with those breached systems, instead of of just recursively deleting everything, which would be the best thing to do IMHO.