the belt and road initiative apt10 active since 2009 has targeted india japan and northern europe and apt19 which attacks legal and investment firms another group apt30 operated for at least 10 years in intelligence gathering from india and southeast asian countries but it was last reported in 2015 and its not certain if its still activeindian agencies have come under attack several times a cyber espionage network from chengdu compromising government systems in india was reported in 2010 by the citizen lab directly linking it to the underground hacking community in china then in 2016 the calypso apt was reported to have targeted government organisations in india and five other countries by 2018 about 35 of all cyber attacks on indian sites were from china indian computer emergency response certin had said chinese media meanwhile said indian hackers had been attacking chinas medical organisations during the covid outbreakbut zuola said there is more to this than just warfare the goal of ccp communist party of china is not cyber warfare but to obtain benefits through propaganda disinformation bribery infiltration largescale collection of information to monitor efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies security or stability of other countriesto do that it relies on more than just hired hackers if the internet is a weapon top hackers are a nations precious wealth says a post on a chinese tech blog going on to list chinas top hackers the names guo shenghua goodwell badboy chinese hawk and coolfire are hallowed here hacker communities speak of four generations of hackers the first that began when china logged on to the internet in 1987 the second started around 1998 considered by many to be the birth of chinese hacking in response to the indonesian riots in which chinese communities were attacked the third around 2001 and the new generation which has been around for about five years organisations like hongke alliance red hacker alliance and chinese eagle top hacker groups in china are not professional ones when patriots and nationalists use keyboards and international networks to conduct online protests they find a flag and a slogan to summon support it becomes a gathering place for protest and distribution of hacking technology and hacking tools said zuola when their goals align the government could look the other way hackers recruited by the government will not be fulltime ones they usually act as consultants to provide solutions for the needs of the government the governmentrecruited hackers can claim to be database engineers systems engineers software developers project managers or academic researchers they dont even need to deliberately cover up their status of working for the government unless they need to work in a foreign company in that case they work remotely