The global pandemic this year gave threat actors new opportunities to use distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to harass and extort organizations. The barriers to entry for DDoS attacks also became extremely low, driven by tool-set improvements and the easy availability of for-hire services that allowed attackers to launch bigger and more consequential attacks. In May 2020, Netscout observed some 929,000 attacks, the largest ever in a 31-day period. The best mitigation approaches continue to be the use of content distribution networks or Web application firewall technology.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/ddos-attacks-spiked-became-more-complex-in-2020