"Everything and everyone is a target, there are no boundaries and there is no moral code," he says.

Brvenik adds that hacktivism has come to mean criminal use of technology to attack something the hackers don't agree with.

"This hurts ordinary people, damages the perception of the hacktivists, and results in ordinary people being hurt," he says.

In order to prove their point, hacktivists are out to either de-face an organisations' webpage or steal valuable data from the server, says IDC's Hue. "Currently, their main form of attack comes in the way of malware and hacking," he says.