Five Common Myths about Ransom DoS Attacks

Did you know that 86% of organizations surveyed in CyberEdge’s Cyberthreat Defense Report this year were compromised by cyberattacks? Since the first known incident in 1989, ransom DoS attacks have become increasingly sophisticated over time. If you are not well versed on the potential threats th...

Police seize DoubleVPN data, servers, and domain

A coordinated effort between global law enforcement agencies—led by the Dutch National Police—shut down a VPN service that was advertised on cybercrime forums. The VPN company promised users the ability to double- and triple-encrypt their web traffic to obscure their location and identity. The...

Is It Time to Consider Replacing Your CDN?

Content delivery networks CDNs are the pipelines of the Internet. Working behind the scenes, they are reshaping how information is consumed online, accelerating web traffic, enhancing user experience, and providing every website with the ability to truly go global. As you may imagine, any...

maltrail

This is a Python-based malicious traffic detection system called Maltrail. It is designed to identify and block malicious traffic by utilizing publicly available blacklists and custom user-defined lists. The system can be used to detect various types of malicious activity, including malware,...

Vulnerability fixed in Snort

Cisco has fixed a vulnerability in Snort. A unauthenticated remote malicious agent could potentially exploit it to bypass a configured policy for HTTP traffic bypassing. As a result, rogue traffic might be not be properly processed by Snort. Cisco has released updates to fix the vulnerability in...

Gambling, Streaming Traffic Up During Men's College Basketball Tourney

Baylor wasn't the only big winner in the 2021 men's college basketball tournament. Gambling industry-related web traffic delivered by Akamai jumped 31% over the category average for all of Q4 2020 on March 31st. That was the day after the field of four finalists - Baylor, Houston, Gonzaga and UCL...

Gambling, Streaming Traffic Up During Men's College Basketball Tourney

Gambling industry-related web traffic delivered by Akamai jumped 31% over the category average for all of Q4 2020 on March 31st...

The one reason your iPhone needs a VPN

For years, Apple has marketed its iPhone as the more secure, more private option when compared to other smart phones, which do not, by default, include an end-to-end encrypted messaging app, warn users repeatedly about app location requests, or provide a privacy-forward Single Sign-On feature. Bu...

Akamai Focused on "What's Next" Following New Traffic Milestone

Akamai hit a new milestone last week when web traffic delivered across our edge network peaked at 200 terabits per second Tbps. To be blunt - that's a whole lot of data traveling the world in a very short amount of time. We believe we can make a good case that it's more than the entire reported...

Akamai Focused on What's Next Following New Traffic Milestone

Akamai hit a new milestone last week when web traffic delivered across our edge network peaked at 200 terabits per second Tbps...

Akamai Focused on What's Next Following New Traffic Milestone

Akamai hit a new milestone last week when web traffic delivered across our edge network peaked at 200 terabits per second Tbps...

CVE-2020-15938

When traffic other than HTTP/S eg: SSH traffic, etc... traverses the FortiGate in version below 6.2.5 and below 6.4.2 on port 80/443, it is not redirected to the transparent proxy policy for processing, as it doesn't have a valid HTTP header...

Is Your Browser Extension a Botnet Backdoor?

A company that rents out access to more than 10 million Web browsers so that clients can hide their true Internet addresses has built its network by paying browser extension makers to quietly include its code in their creations. This story examines the lopsided economics of extension development,...

Gambling, Social Media, and 10 Years of Streaming the 'Big Game'

Thanks to the unique perspectives we have via the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, we're able to observe massive amounts of web traffic and data that provide insights across the various industries Akamai serves. In the wake of Super Bowl LV, we're sharing some observations on gambling traffic an...

Games Drive Christmas Web Traffic

If you turned on a new game console and/or downloaded video games over the holidays, you certainly weren't alone. New data from Akamai shows that game-related traffic delivered across our network was more than double the Q4 average on December 25, and up nearly 50% on December 26. During the same...

CVE-2020-28217

A CWE-311: Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data vulnerability exists in Easergy T300 firmware 2.7 and older, that would allow an attacker to read network traffic over HTTP protocol...

Holidays Are Coming – the State of Security for E-commerce in 2020

With the Coronavirus pandemic driving consumers online, a new report from Imperva reveals how this year’s holiday shopping season will present online retailers with a level of traffic - and cyber-attack threats - like they’ve never seen before. Among the many effects of COVID-19 has been a huge...

bettercap-proxy-modules

This is a collection of HTTP proxy modules for the BetterCap framework, a tool for performing network attacks and penetration testing. The modules are designed to be used with the BetterCap proxy server, which can be configured to intercept and modify HTTP traffic between a client and a server. T...

squid: HTTP Request Smuggling could result in cache poisoning

A flaw was found in squid. Due to incorrect data validation, a HTTP Request Smuggling attack against HTTP and HTTPS traffic is possible leading to cache poisoning. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity...

squid: HTTP Request Splitting could result in cache poisoning

A flaw was found in squid. Due to incorrect data validation, an HTTP Request Splitting attack against HTTP and HTTPS traffic is possible leading to cache poisoning. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity...