PART I: Retrospective 2020: DDoS Was Back -- Bigger and Badder Than Ever Before

Never before has the risk of a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack been higher. In 2020, we saw record-breaking attacks, a DDoS extortion campaign impacting thousands of organizations globally, more emergency customer turnups, and more Akamai customers attacked than any year on record -- an...

DDoS attacks in Q3 2019

News overview This past quarter we observed a new DDoS attack that confirmed our earlier hypothesis regarding attacks through the Memcached protocol. As we surmised, the attackers attempted to use another, rather exotic protocol to amplify DDoS attacks. Experts at Akamai Technologies recently...

Research Paints Shamoon Creators as 'Skillful Amateurs'

Despite seemingly endless pontification, it’s still too early to definitively say whether there’s a connection between the Shamoon malware and recent attacks on Middle Eastern oil firms, yet some of the attackers’ intentions may be getting clearer. Research suggests the creators behind the recent...