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Death by a Thousand Cuts: Nuisance DDoS Attacks in the Games Industry
At Akamai, we talk a lot about DDoS attacks. It's because we're pretty good at handling them. We've stopped many of the world's biggest attacks. And, while less common, they get a lot of attention. But we can also stop the world's smallest attacks. And we stop lots of them. It's these smaller...
Serverless at the Edge: Enabling Magical Unicorns
Before we dive straight into the magical unicorn from heaven that is serverless computing embedded within the CDN edge a direct customer quote that I want on a team T-shirt soon, let's first level-set on some basic concepts of computing. In the context of web experiences, IoT device messaging, an...
The Only Constant Is Change -- Rethinking Secure Access for a New Workforce
It seems like a long time ago now when IT teams had their annual strategy meeting, where topics related to network modernization with SASE or SD-WANs, remote access, threat prevention, and cloud adoption were likely discussed. COVID-19, however, has caused a lot of these initiatives to take a...
Largest Ever Recorded Packet Per Second-Based DDoS Attack Mitigated by Akamai
On June 21, 2020, Akamai mitigated the largest packet per second PPS distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack ever recorded on the Akamai platform. The attack generated 809 million packets per second Mpps, targeting a large European bank...
Phishing Attacks Against Facebook / Google via Google Translate
When it comes to phishing, criminals put a lot of effort into making their attacks look legitimate, while putting pressure on their victims to take action. In today's post, we're going to examine a recent phishing attempt against me personally...
We Are Akamai: What Led Us Here
About Akamai and the blog We are the people at the heart of the internet. Every day, we work together to protect our customers, deliver ultimate experiences in the digital world, and connect people from far corners of the planet...
How to Make Your Demo Environment Easy, Accessible...AND Secure
A common misconception I've heard in the field is that a tradeoff exists between easy access for applications and network security. For example, companies want to allow their sales team, partners, and prospects access into demo environments. With traditional access solutions, there is a question ...
Perception Matters: Making RUM More Real
Traditional nav timing metrics have given us a lot in the way of understanding how our pages and apps are performing, but as users' expectations rise and page complexity grows, you need to really understand how users are perceiving the performance of your website beyond traditional page load...
Passing the Online Torch from Rio to PyeongChang
Lighting the flame marks the beginning of PyeongChang, commemorating the ancient Greek myth of Prometheus stealing fire from Zeus, and connecting the games to its predecessors. The lighting ceremony has provided some of the most iconic moments, such as Muhammad Ali lighting the flame in Atlanta i...
Humans, Machines and Data: Fighting Mirai, Together
By Yohai Einav, Hongliang Liu Background It's been 18 months since Mirai entered our lives, and, unfortunately, we expect it to have a perennial presence in our cyber-world for years to come. If we look at the big picture, all indicators suggest that the Mirai problem and its descendants is just...
Attack of the Killer ROBOT
On Dec 12th, 2017, researchers Hanno Böck, Juraj Somorovsky and Craig Young published a paper detailing an attack they called the Return Of Bleichenbacher's Oracle Threat ROBOT. This attack, as the name implies, is an extension of an attack published in 1998 that affects systems using certain...
The State of Mobile App Performance
In our previous blog, we saw how a new generation of users are increasing the expectations of a mobile app like never before and identified the three key success criteria for mobile apps: 1 increase customer conversions, 2 drive installs and 3 increase customer loyalty. For this blog we profiled...
Nine Years of Better Broadband
One of the questions I am frequently asked about the State of the Internet is how things are changing - what are the trends we see in the data? As we've just closed out the ninth year of publication of the Connectivity report, I thought that it would be a good time to take look back and see just...
Introducing More Granular Controls for AI Bot Traffic
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Akamai Cloud Pulse Audit Logs Are Generally Available
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When AI Models Outgrow Storage
Discover how Akamai Object Storage absorbs high-frequency machine data, mitigates egress costs, and scales production AI model outputs...
Most AI ROI Gets Lost in the Infrastructure, Not the Model
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CVE-2026-34354: Guardicore Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Read the technical details of a security vulnerability CVE-2026-34354 in Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent for Windows — and get clear guidance on mitigation...
Why AI-Powered Vulnerability Discovery Strengthens Akamai's Security Mission
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Why GPU Card Counts Matter for Real AI Workloads
Stay ahead with NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs in the Akamai Inference Cloud. Discover the right GPU shape for your AI needs...
Inside the Fix: Analysis of In-the-Wild Exploit of CVE-2026-21513
Read how PatchDiff-AI uncovered the root cause of CVE-2026-21513 — an actively exploited MSHTML vulnerability — and how APT28 leveraged it in real-world attacks...
Stop LLM Attacks: How Security Helps AI Apps Achieve Their ROI
AI security is a business problem. Protect your LLM application investment and ROI by connecting your security team with business stakeholders...
Locked Out and Held for Ransom: A City's Battle Against Cybercrime
Read how having a plan and doing some preparation in advance can lessen the severity of a ransomware attack — or prevent one altogether...
Akamai API Security Enhancements
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Consistent Security Everywhere: Akamai Makes Leading WAF Technology CDN-Agnostic
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Akamai Launches Early Hints to Further Boost User Experience and SEO
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5 Steps to Make Zero Trust Achievable
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What to Do When Your VPN Provider Suffers from Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
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What Is API Detection and Response?
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Akamai’s Responsibility to Our Enterprise Customers
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Modern API Security
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Akamai Account Protector’s New Protection Against Account Opening Abuse
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The Importance of Allyship for Women in Tech
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Akamai Named an Overall Leader in Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms
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Unmasking a Sophisticated Phishing Campaign That Targets Hotel Guests
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Best Practices for Testing Akamai App & API Protector
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You Are a Woman in Tech: Own Your Voice
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As Phishing Websites Flourish, Brands Seek Protection from Impersonation
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Akamai Named a Leader in IDC MarketScape for Network Edge Security as a Service
Akamai was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for delivering cloud security without performance trade-offs via our mature application security portfolio...
Akamai Announces Advanced Bot Detections, Global Recognition of Entities
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Akamai Mitigates Record DDoS Attack in Asia-Pacific (900 Gbps)
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Elevate Streaming Media with EdgeWorkers and Macrometa Stream Workers
Elevate players’ gaming experiences with Akamai EdgeWorkers and Macrometa Stream Workers...
India Becomes Top Global Target for API Attacks
An increased adoption of APIs also increases the risk of API attacks. Read about how India has become a top global target for API attacks in 2022...
4 Steps to Prepare for Open Enrollment: Ready for Takeoff?
Preparing for open enrollment is a key part of running efficient healthcare organizations, but it's difficult to know where to start. Learn which steps to take...
Picture-Perfect Gaming Experience for WorldMatch
WorldMatch, a games and content provider for global markets, collaborates with some of the biggest international casinos. Headquartered in Italy and in operation since 2003, the gaming provider boasts a portfolio of more than 200 games, 160 slot machines with 70 game engines, 30 table games, and...
Dogged Persistence—The Name of the Game for One DDoS Attacker
With DDoS, we typically observe a moderate degree of attacker persistence. DDoS attacks are relatively easy to launch from a number of online booter services, and the availability of cryptocurrencies for payment has made it easy to remain anonymous. Attackers can try their hand at DDoS for little...
Holiday Season Phishing Attacks on the Rise
Phishing continues to be a major attack vector, and it's surprising just how many security incidents and breaches start with an employee clicking on a link in a carefully crafted phishing email and sometimes doing the same with a not-so-well crafted phishing email -- see this example...
Akamai + Fingerbank: How an open source community can transform security
Isn't it amazing how seemingly simple decisions can have far-reaching effects? When the Inverse team in Montreal took over PacketFence in 2008, it was an open source OS solution...
When Hackers Take Advantage of Your Trusted Vendors
As JavaScript-based client-side attacks continue to evolve, we see how attackers are getting more sophisticated and employing more advanced techniques. Unfortunately, it has been proven many times that any website partner can be exploited to carry out an attack. In the past month, we witnessed on...
Every Application Should Be Behind a WAF
It's no secret that security threats continue to expand in volume and variety, making headlines on virtually a daily basis. From nation-state attacks, corporate espionage, and data exfiltration campaigns to all-in-one and sneaker bot campaigns, businesses across the globe find themselves dealing...