As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive shift in internet usage, cybercriminals launched more than 10 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at crippling targets with a heavy reliance on online services. Attack frequency spiked 20 percent year over year and 22 percent for the last six months of 2020. Ecommerce, streaming services, online learning, and healthcare all experienced increased attention from malicious actors targeting the very online services essential to remote work and online life. Attacks widened their target profile beyond typical targets as the massive shift to online work and play opened promising new avenues of attack.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3621659/the-top-ten-industries-under-cyber-attack.html