If a foreign power wanted to amplify chaos online, this seems like an easy pre-scheduled time to do it? But more likely just kids with endless hacked IoT avail

If a foreign power wanted to amplify chaos online, this seems like an easy pre-scheduled time to do it? But more likely just kids with endless hacked IoT available to DDoS whatever they feel like. Before IPv6 there were "internet weather" services, are they still around?