Security firm Imperva monitored and prevented Anonymous going against the Vatican. Over a 25-day period, Imperva watched the attack play out and worked to mitigate the threat as it happened in real-time. Over the first day of this, there were roughly 3,000 SQL injection attempts to see if they can steal some data. Ultimately, a web-application firewall was able to block the injection attempts, he says. The main takeaway from viewing this case was that hacktivists aren’t that difficult to stop, but it raises the question of: are you prepared?”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/breaking-down-hacktivist-attack-a-4757