Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continue to be a weapon of choice among threat actors seeking to extort money from victims, disrupt operations, conceal data-exfiltration activities, further hacktivist causes, or even to carry out cyberwar. DDoS attacks are no longer something that just big companies in a few industries need to worry about. They have become a threat to every business. A small company is just as likely these days to become a target of a DDoS attack, as a big one.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/7-things-to-know-about-today-s-ddos-attacks