In international politics, there is a precedent of proxy condemnation. That is, countries are frowned upon when they use external conflicts to advance their own agendas in other countries. However, this same precedent does not exist in the scope of international cyber operations. The anonymity of cyber attacks allows states to mask their attribution to conflict and this is a major upheaval in international relations. Additionally, there is the indistinguishability between individual actors who act in accordance to U.S politics that acts as a proxy where there is deniable plausibility as to who the true perpetrator is. The relationship between individual proxy actors and state interests in cyber conflict is a growing issue that is both hard to identify and hard to condemn. Current actions to regulate this behavior include a set of international standards and a new classification of cyber behavior to limit retorsion (not technically illegal behavior but nevertheless hostile action). Additionally, general cybersecurity practices is a good countermeasure against proxy cyber operations.