A typical brute force DDoS attack comes from a botnet an enormous network of malware-infected devices that cyber criminals use to lock up your website. Anyone with a public web presence (small or large) is a potential target. 51 percent of all companies (no matter the size) have experienced a distributed denial of service attack. The average cost to mitigate an attack is $408,292. In other words, it takes about 19 days (and over $21,000 per day) to resolve the problem.”]
Source: https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/articles/the-anatomy-of-a-ddos-attack/