Publicity for what??? I ventured in the DDoS world for the first time I was 15 and back then that was some mean nerd shit... Today any 6 years old moron with a geeky side (not even a nerd) can do it...
You don't see a lot of hacks with merit (DDoS is not really hacking anyway) nowadays, certainly not in mainstream media and you don't see them tweet... Even anon is a rather weak collective in my book... Stealth and true anonymity is the only life possible for a true hacktivist even more so for true cyber criminals who can make actual damage beside trolling bandwidth...