International Cyber Terrorism

corporations around the world face millions of cyberattacks a day. "Most of
these attacks don't gain any media attention or lead to strong political statements by
victims." This type of crime is usually financially motivated.
Non-Profit Research
But not all examinations with the issue of cyberwarfare are achieving profit or personal
gain. There are still institutes and companies like the University of Cincinnati or
the Kaspersky Security Lab which are trying to increase the sensibility of this topic by
researching and publishing of new security threats.
By Region
Approximately 120 countries have been
developing ways to use the Internet as
a weapon and target financial markets,
government computer systems and
utilities.
Asia
China
Foreign Policy magazine puts the size of China's "hacker army" at anywhere from
50,000 to 100,000 individuals.
Diplomatic cables highlight US concerns that China is using access to Microsoft source
code and 'harvesting the talents of its private sector' to boost its offensive and defensive
capabilities.
The 2018 cyberattack on the Marriott hotel chain that collected personal details of
roughly 500 million guests is now known to be a part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering
effort that also hacked health insurers and the security clearance files of millions more
Americans, The hackers, are suspected of working on behalf of the Ministry of State
Security, the country's Communist-controlled civilian spy agency. "The information is
exactly what the Chinese use to root out spies, recruit intelligence agents and build a
rich repository of Americans’ personal data for future targeting."
A 2008 article in the Culture Mandala: The Bulletin of the Centre for East-West Cultural
and Economic Studies by Jason Fritz alleges that the Chinese government from 1995 to
2008 was involved in a number of high-profile cases of espionage, primarily through the
use of a "decentralized network of students, business people, scientists, diplomats, and
engineers from within the Chinese Diaspora". A defector in Belgium, purportedly an
agent, claimed that there were hundreds of spies in industries throughout Europe, and
on his defection to Australia Chinese diplomat Chen Yonglin said there were over 1,000
such in that country. In 2007, a Russian executive was sentenced to 11 years for
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