Hacktivists

1. Hacktivists (Hacking Activists) are cyber criminals that utilise hacking as a tool to attack an organization. These cyber criminals targets organizations with the ideology of wanting to maximize disruption and embarrassment to further a political or social agenda. Click to know more about expert level training (Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute)

 

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2. Hacktivists engage in hacking of computer networks and systems as a form of protest.
Source: (Hargrave, 2012)

3. Hacktivists seek to use their activities to draw attention to political causes. Most often, they carry our denial of services attacks to take down websites, but they also attempt to steal sensitive data that can prove useful to their cause or lead to embarrassment for public figures.
Source: (Elvidence, 2016)