In the last twenty years, China has managed to turn a formerly scattered group of amateurs into a government-sponsored cyber army operating at the international level. A carefully constructed network of competitions, academic programs, military units, and private contractors, combined with judicial statism, has enabled Beijing to exploit hacking skills as an effective tool of state influence and leverage just as authorities and agencies remain outwardly silent and resistant t

The war between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas started on October 7, when Hamas launched its assault against Israel by firing