List of DDoS attacks took place during the month of October 2020.
| Date of attack | Country | Industry | Downtime | Company Affected | Size of Company | Attack Details | Press Link |
| Oct 20 | USA | Education | NA | Toledo Public Schools (TPS) | Enterprise | The site went offline, disrupting virtual classes as hackers perpetrated the system and stole confidential data. | Click here |
| Oct 19 | China | Financial Services | 32 Mins. | Shenzhen Bourse Stock Exchange | Enterprise | The site went down during peak business hours – investors suffered losses. However, there has been no official confirmation of a DDoS attack. | Click here |
| Oct 16 | USA | Gambling | 2 Days | BetOnline.ag, and SportsBetting.ag | Small | The site experienced inaccessibility and downtime. It was down through the weekend and NFL Sunday. | Click here |
| Oct 16 | USA | Education | NA | Cerro Gordo School District | Small | Multiple attacks overwhelmed the website, and disrupted students’ ability to work from home. | Click here |
| Oct 14 | UK | Travel | NA | Travelex | Enterprise | The attack originated with a ransom threat of 20 bitcoins followed by a volumetric attack and then one DNS amplification attack which affected site performance and accessibility. | Click here |
| Oct 12 | Norway | Telecom | 3 Hrs | Telenor Norway | Enterprise | 400 Gbps of traffic rained on its web and email services for nearly one hour. The company was served a ransom note. | Click here |
| Oct 11 | USA | Education | 7 Days | Sandwich Public School and Tyngsboro’s High School | NA | The sites suffered from connection issues impacting students learning remotely across schools in Massachusetts. | Click here |
| Oct 9 | USA | Education | 3 Days | Tyngsboro High School | Medium | The DDoS attack disrupted remote learning inconveniencing students and teachers. | Click here |
| Oct 6 | USA | Government | 7 Hrs. | Florida Department of State website | Enterprise | The voter registration site received 1.1 million visitors an hour crashing the site in its final hours of availability. | Click here |
| Oct 4 | USA | Gaming | NA | Blizzard | Enterprise | A heavy DDOS attack led to high latency and disconnections, disturbing the game sessions of many players. | Click here |
| Oct 3 | USA | Education | 1 Week | Bay Shore school district | Small | The attacks disrupted computer service impacting both students and teachers in the Bay Shore school district. | Click Here |
| Oct 2 | USA | Gaming | NA | Activision | Enterprise | Severe lag was experienced by Call of Duty: Warzone game players, with matches crashing or disconnecting during crucial play moments. | Click Here |
| Oct 2 | Korea | Gaming | NA | PUBG Corporation | Enterprise | A battery of attacks caused several PUBG Mobile users to be disconnected from the game. Some faced ‘Server Authentication Error’ when logging in from Facebook and PUBG Mobile Lite. | Click Here |
| Sep 29 | Sweden | Technology | 2 days | Flightradar24 | Small | For the third time in two days, a series of outages and general instability affected the website causing intermittent loading errors for visitors. | Click here |
| Sep 28 | France | Shipping | 2 days | CMA CGM | Enterprise | The main website and some subsidiary sites went down affecting online customer services. | Click here |
| Sep 25 | Central Africa | Media | 2 weeks | Correio Angolense | NA | The Angola based media house’s website has been inaccessible since September 25 after it was crashed by thousands of simultaneous attacks. | Click here |
| Sep 24 | Hungary | Telecom | NA | Magyar Telecom | Enterprise | The series of attacks caused lapses in Magyar Telekom’s services resulting in connectivity issues across several parts of Budapest. | Click here |
| Sep 24 | Hungary | Banking | NA | OTP Bank | Enterprise | One of the biggest hacker attacks in Hungary ever, both in size and complexity, took place in several waves, heavily disrupting banking services. | Click here |
| Sep 24 | Singapore | Financial Services | 1 day | Bitrue | Small | Web services and applications went down affecting connectivity and interactivity. | Click here |
