To quote several technology pundits, the situation is building into something of a Cyber Cold War.

BBC: Technology

Markus Ranum, a veteran of the network security industry and a noted critic of the cyber war hype, points to another similarity with the Cold War.

WSJ: Battling the Cyber Warmongers

The problem of cyber arms control is akin to the greatest arms control failure of the Cold War, which still persists: the mass distribution of the most produced firearm in human history, the Kalashnikov AK-47.

CNN: Cyber arms control? Forget about it