Radware® (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, released a new report—Hacktivism Unveiled: Insights into the Footprints of Hacktivists. The tell-all report provides an in-depth, comparative analysis of the motivations, targets, tactics and techniques, and DDoS activities of the world’s top 15 most active political and religious hacktivists groups.
Radware’s threat intelligence reveals the rankings and profiles of top attacking actors, the most attacked countries and websites, as well as some misperceptions about well-known hacktivist groups. The findings in Hacktivism Unveiled are based on the tracking and analysis of messages from active hacktivists groups on Telegram during the period between Feb. 18 - April 18, 2023.
Pascal Geenens, Radware’s director of threat intelligence, noted the changing landscape of hacktivism. Geenens said, “While religious hacktivism has remained a constant threat over the years, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has ushered in a whole new wave of not only patriotic and political hacktivism, but also hacktivism in general. Modern-day hacktivism with its barrage of denial-of-service attacks is bolder, more determined, and more media-driven than ever before.”