The past two decades has witnessed a number of initiatives by international bodies like; the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Council of Europe (COE), G-8, European Union, United Nations and the Interpol, which recognized the inherent cross border reaches of cybercrime, the limitations of unilateral approaches, and the need for international harmony in legal, technical, and other areas.
In cyberspace a cyber attacker can hide himself readily, and even disguise his attack to appear to originate from a third party. The problem of attribution for a cyber-action is clearly one that will complicate any effort at security controls. Uncertainty about attribution will also constrain retaliatory action. The current level of research in reliable attribution is not adequate. The cyber crime treaties cannot be implemented unless trust exists between signatories that best efforts are being put to identify the criminals and therefore, transparency is first precondition for success.
The inability to track cyber terrorists would make it difficult for local and international jurisdictions to track the entire network of cyber terrorists as well as to prosecute them due to the lack of proof of identification of these cyber terrorists. The potential adoption of a new variant of Cyber Crime and Terrorism convention by all nations would provide the eco-system that may put the criminals and terrorists under pressure and increases the success probabilities of the international law enforcement agencies.
Source Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century (21CW), IEEE Conference