I think you'll find if you read the news, most of these hacker collectives are run/coerced/manipulated by the security services of various countries! Their ince

I think you'll find if you read the news, most of these hacker collectives are run/coerced/manipulated by the security services of various countries! Their incentive is to provide a more secure computing environment for their own state needs, but also to provide a robust defence should any crimes come before the courts, otherwise how can the defence prove the individual operating the computing devices carried out whatever crime?