<aside> <img src="/icons/cellular_gray.svg" alt="/icons/cellular_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Individuals or groups that use their technical skills to promote a cause or drive social change instead of personal gain are known as Hacktivists**. Hacktivists** perform Hacktivism

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To accomplish their objectives, hacktivists use a wide range of techniques to achieve their goals

• Website Defacement
  • Form of electronic graffiti and is usually treated as an act of vandalism
• Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
  • Attempting to overwhelm the victim’s systems or networks so that they cannot be accessed by the organization’s legitimate users
• Doxing
  • Involves the public release of private information about an individual or organization
• Leaking of Sensitive Data
  • Releasing sensitive data to the public at large over the internet

<aside> <img src="/icons/cellular_gray.svg" alt="/icons/cellular_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Hacktivists are primarily motivated by their ideological beliefs rather than trying to achieve financial gains

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The most well known hacktivist group is known as “Anonymous”

Anonymous is a loosely affiliated collective that has been involved in numerous high-profile attacks over the years for targeting organizations that they perceive as acting unethically or against the public interest at large