A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is when a threat actor floods a website or a network connection with more requests than it can handle, making the service inaccessible. The Avaddon ransomware gang now uses DDoS attacks to take down a victim’s site or network until the victim contacts them and begins negotiating. The more pressure the criminals can put companies under, the better their chances of extracting payment, threat analyst Brett Callow told BleepingComputer via email. It is too soon to tell if threat actors will adopt similar tactics.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/another-ransomware-now-uses-ddos-attacks-to-force-victims-to-pay/