Given the state of surveillance technology today, it's pretty hard for me to believe that any large hacking organization manages to fly under the radar of their governments for very long. You need infrastructure, equipment, and financial capabilities to pull off what these groups manage.

These groups are either working explicitly with governments, or their leadership has been approached by domestic police forces and are strong-armed into focusing their attention on specific organizations.

I wouldn't describe the landscape of extractive-government in Russia as "state control" over enterprise: it's not that the public offices themselves are overstepping their bounds, it's that the holders of those public offices are corrupt and/or compromised.

Yes, this is splitting-hairs, but the Russian Federation isn't anything like North Korea - nor remotely Communist.

Oh, yeah, I should probably have been clearer; I don't mean to imply that it's similar to the situation in the USSR.