{"id":306822,"date":"2019-05-19T08:12:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T06:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=306822"},"modified":"2019-05-19T08:14:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T06:14:25","slug":"hacktivism-has-declined-by-95-since-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/306822-hacktivism-has-declined-by-95-since-2015.html","title":{"rendered":"Hacktivism has declined by 95% since 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM X-Force has released a <a href=\"https:\/\/securityintelligence.com\/posts\/the-decline-of-hacktivism-attacks-drop-95-percent-since-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>report<\/strong><\/a> which shows that hacktivism &#8211; hacking for the point of promoting an activist agenda &#8211; has decreased by about 95% in the past four years.<\/p>\n<p>According to X-Force, hacktivism has dropped from 35 reported instances in 2015 to just two last year. So far, no instances of hacktivism have been reported in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most notably, the Anonymous collective and associated groups that identify themselves as Anonymous in different parts of the world perpetrated fewer attacks,&#8221; explained X-Force.<\/p>\n<p>According to X-Force&#8217;s data, Anonymous has contributed to nearly half of all hacktivism attacks since 2015, which has meant that their decline had a massive effect on the general hacktivism landscape.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arrests and legal warnings issued to hacktivists at large may be acting as an effective deterrent against additional hacktivist activity,&#8221; X-Force added.<\/p>\n<p>However, X-Force speculates that despite the significant drop it has documented, hacktivism is probably not dying off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More likely than not, we are experiencing a lull in hacktivist activity rather than a conclusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/306788-zombieload-attack-what-you-need-to-know.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">ZombieLoad attack \u2013 What you need to know<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM X-Force has released a report which shows that hacktivism has decreased significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":165092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[189,17686,835],"class_list":["post-306822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-anonymous","tag-hacktivism","tag-ibm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306830,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306822\/revisions\/306830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}