Recent high-profile activity suggests the hacktivist threat is reemerging after being curtailed by law enforcement, and could grow over the decade to encompass a wider set of targets, perpetrators and tactics. While they span many ideologies, broadly speaking, hacktivists use cyberattacks to promote some sort of political agenda, often through the release of company data and/or users' personal information, distributed denial of service and/or website defacement tactics to raise awareness of their cause and draw negative attention toward their targets. While other cyber actors like criminals and state intelligence services also employ these tactics, hacktivists do not outwardly seek monetary gain or to acquire valuable strategic or economic information they can then exploit for their own benefit; instead, their primary objective is to give rise to negative media attention on their targets by releasing incriminating information or otherwise embarrassing them publicly.