Imperva managed to watch a hacktivist attack play out and work to mitigate the threat as it happened in real-time. Over a 25-day period, Imperva watched the attack as it played out, and was able to break it down into three phrases, which were: Recruiting, Communications, Application Attack and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks. 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.bankinfosecurity.com/breaking-down-hacktivist-attack-a-4757