Daily peak of DDoS attack traffic increased 100% from January 2020 to May 2021. Most of the high-bandwidth, high-intensity attacks originated from less than 50 hosting companies, Nokia Deepfield says. DDoS volumes in the first quarter of 2021 increased 31% compared to the previous quarter, with the occurrence of major attacks of 10 Gbps or higher tripling. The largest attack in Q1 was 295 Gbps, the report says. Cybercriminals can affordably purchase the code needed to wage an attack, it says.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/peak-ddos-traffic-up-100-researchers-report-a-16904