DDoS attacks became larger in volume and the number of attacks exceeding 50 Gbps increased sharply in 2020. Cyber extortionists targeted financial services, government, telecommunications, and telecommunications. One attack that Akamai encountered last year topped 1.4 Tbps and 809 million packets per second. One of the most troubling trends for organizations that vendors reported observing was an increase in so-called ransom attacks (RDDoS), where adversaries tried extorting money from organizations by threatening them with massive DDoS.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/2020-marked-a-renaissance-in-ddos-attacks