dark web channels in 2025

Hacktivists Use Hashtags as Coordination Tools, DDoS Dominates Attacks in 2025

At GITEX Global 2025, Kaspersky researchers published a new report, Signal in the Noise, analyzing more than 120 hacktivist groups and over 11,000 hacktivist posts shared across surface and dark web channels in 2025. The study reveals that hashtags have become the connective tissue of hacktivist campaigns, serving as identifiers, coordination markers, and claims of responsibility, while distributed denial of…