Richard Browne

Well, I suppose three things and take it in reverse order.

The actual target here, for the most part, of hacktivist attacks are not, if you like, the entity that they're directly targeting.

It's you.

It's the media.

They want to draw attention to their cause, if you like.

They want to intimidate.

They want to frighten.

So the ultimate target here is for you to be reporting on it, for the news to be covering cybersecurity incidents.

So to go back from that, to do so, they will target anything that they think will attract media attention.

It could be a website to do with the presidency.

It could be a media website.

It could be essentially anything.

So if we're talking hacktivism, those are the likely targets.

Anything at all that will drive media attention towards their activity.

There are, of course, a range of other types of targets.

Espionage affecting government or related entities is always a real possibility.

States are very interested in any information about what the European Union is doing around the presidency.

So espionage is an ongoing, very high possibility during a presidency.

That will likely never make the public domain.

It shouldn't, but it's a possibility.