During the pandemic, cyber attackers targeted industries providing connectivity, services and entertainment to populations forced to shelter-in-place, resulting in a 341% year-over-year increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Researchers predict that RDDoS attacks will increase 30% in the upcoming year, especially given the popularity of cryptocurrencies. Researchers caution that CSPs and other organizations that rely on threshold and signature-based detection methods will experience severe outages from newer, evasive DDoS attacks.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/06/11/ddos-attacks-increase-pandemic/