AI Survey: 50% of Organizations Struggle to Maintain Latency at Scale

The Akamai State of AI Inference report captures real data from the field that describes how AI inference is being built and scaled in production today...

TrickBot Behind More Than $724 Million in Crypto Theft and Extortion

Akamai's latest Ransomware Report 2025 reveals "quadruple extortion," new AI-driven tactics by groups like Black Basta, FunkSec, and TrickBot, and growing threats to non-profits. Learn about evolving cyber threats...

RedTail Crypto-Mining Malware Exploiting Palo Alto Networks Firewall Vulnerability

The threat actors behind the RedTail cryptocurrency mining malware have added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting Palo Alto Networks firewalls to its exploit arsenal. The addition of the PAN-OS vulnerability to its toolkit has been complemented by updates to the malware, which now...

ThreatList: Top Summer DDoS Trends

On Tuesday, Akamai released a report on the year’s biggest distributed denial of service DDoS attacks. The report illustrates how this time-tested attack method continues to morph and adopt new tricks, and discusses trends to watch as we move into the summer months. According to the study, Summer...

DDoS of Past, Present and Future

The pervasiveness of technology has meant automation of tasks, allowing better productivity, with more time to do more. However, the dark side of technology would be that enterprises and individuals alike are vulnerable to cybercrimes, compromise of identities, loss of data and subject to malicio...

How Did One Of The World's Poorer Countries Become its Top Source of Online Attacks?

What country serves up the biggest share of online attacks? The U.S., you say? It’s the world’s largest and most advanced economy. China maybe? Its growing fast, with billions of citizens and hundreds of millions of Internet users. How about Russia? Try Myanmar. The southeast Asian country that’s...