Hacktivist attacks dropped by 95% since 2015

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Anonymous hackers were once breaching companies and government networks for various humanitarian or social causes, but according to IBM, the group’s name has now been tarnished by its involvement with politically-themed campaigns, which started around 2016, and which IBM says has turned away many of its members. This has led to the rise of the term “fake Anons” to describe Anonymous members either not associated with the group, or acting on personal agendas — seeing to promote various social or political propaganda, or profit from the Anonymous community financially. Their actions have caused many Anonymous members to distrust the group as a whole, and focus their efforts on something else other than hacktivism.

Source: www.zdnet.com