hacktivist

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hacktivist (plural hacktivists)

A person who engages in hacktivism.

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The action drew a swift response from the "hacktivist" group Anonymous, which did a little taking-down of its own, flooding the websites of the FBI, the and music and movie trade groups with so much data that they were inaccessible for much of a day. Source: Internet

The attack — launched by “hacktivist” group New World Hacking — targeted the BBC, one of the biggest news and media providers in the world, with a surge of bandwidth measuring 602GB a second at its peak. Source: Internet

This group of prolific hackers, which started off in the mid-2011s as a loyal hacktivist group to President Bashar Al-Assad, has since then evolved into a full-blown cyber outfit capable of launching sophisticated attacks. Source: Internet

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