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What country has the most cyber hackers?

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What country has the most cyber hackers is difficult to measure exactly because hacking is often hidden, but based on cybercrime origin data, malware production, and state-sponsored activity, China, Russia and the United States have the most hackers by volume and capability, with different motivations. China is often cited as having the most hackers overall due to large population, large state-sponsored groups like APT10, APT41 and Volt Typhoon, plus large underground cybercrime market, and is attributed to most intellectual property theft and critical infrastructure probing globally. Russia has most ransomware and financially motivated hackers, with groups like LockBit, Conti, Evil Corp and Fancy Bear based in Russia or Russian-speaking countries, responsible for about 70% of ransomware attacks. United States has most white hat ethical hackers and security researchers, plus offensive capability via NSA, and also many black hat hackers due to large tech industry, with US being top source of bug bounty hunters on HackerOne. Other countries with high hacker numbers include North Korea with Lazarus Group stealing $1B+ in crypto, India with large number of scammers and ethical hackers, Brazil with banking malware, and Nigeria with business email compromise scammers. For cybercrime reports, US, UK and Australia receive most attacks, but originate from Russia, China, Nigeria and India. So China and Russia have most malicious hackers, US has most ethical hackers.
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