The goals of state-sponsored cyber warfare are: * Intelligence gathering * Foreign military disruption * Infrastructure disruption * Civilian misinformation

The goals of state-sponsored cyber warfare are: * Intelligence gathering * Foreign military disruption * Infrastructure disruption * Civilian misinformation campaigns * Civilian commerce disruption * Trade disruption The goals of cyber warfare campaigns are typically limited by the proxy relationships between national powers. For example China has sophisticated cyber capabilities but do not want to do anything that will damage economic relationships which includes any form of political interference thereby largely limiting their threat to the US to military and intelligence operations. When you consider there are many players each of whose goals are a combination of national priorities and political relationships this gets complicated.