"DDoS Attacks Surge in 2020 Due to #COVID19"

Researchers at NETSCOUT discovered that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks rose substantially last year following the digital shift brought about by COVID-19. The researchers stated that over 10 million attacks of this nature occurred in 2020, which is around 1.6 million higher than in 2019.  It is normal for the number of DDoS attacks to increase, but the growth rate that the researchers observed suggests that cyber-criminals have sought to exploit the growth of internet use and home working during the pandemic.  The researchers also found that attack frequency was up 20% across the whole of 2020, excluding the pre-pandemic months of January, February, and most of March.  The researchers recorded the largest single number of monthly DDoS attacks they had ever seen in May 2020, at 929,000, with monthly rates regularly exceeding 800,000 from March.

Infosecurity reports: "DDoS Attacks Surge in 2020 Due to #COVID19"