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KeyTrap Highlights Need for Enduring DNS Defenses for Service Providers
DNS resolvers must be highly resilient to malicious activity like DoS attacks and cache poisoning. Akamai CacheServe delivers enduring defenses...
Welcome to 2024: A Year in Review with Akamai Hunt
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Customers Champion Akamai Security Solutions, Support, and Partnership
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Akamai Customer Trust Built on Partnership and Best User Experience
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State of the Cloud: Where We Are and Where We’re Heading
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Enhancing Object Storage Performance: Introducing NVMe Hardware and Expanded Capacity
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Advocating for Inclusion in Tech
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Data Matters — Empowering Threat Hunters to Reduce API Risk
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Keep Your Tech FLAME Alive
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A Retrospective on DDoS Trends in 2023 and Actionable Strategies for 2024
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Mute the Sound: Chaining Vulnerabilities to Achieve RCE on Outlook: Pt 2
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Our Top Takeaways from 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for Microsegmentation
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How Account Opening Abuse Affects 6 Industries
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DGA Families with Dynamic Seeds: Unexpected Behavior in DNS Traffic
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A Distributed Cloud Platform Is a Priority for Gaming IT Leaders
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Future Growth Relies on Channel Partners
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What’s New for Developers: May 2023
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Hot Topics at Healthcare Conferences: From AI to Cyber Insurance Costs
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How to Be Prepared in the Age of Cyber Insecurity
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Uncovering HinataBot: A Deep Dive into a Go-Based Threat
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Introducing Akamai Hunt to Stop the Most Evasive Threats and Risks
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Changing Healthcare Delivery Requires Evolving Security Strategies
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Wartime Sparks Unpredictable Shifts in DDoS Targeting
DDoS cyberattacks targeting European customers on the Akamai Prolexic platform are increasing worldwide, In response, Akamai unveiled its new DDoS solution...
Akamai’s Perspective on November’s Patch Tuesday
Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's November insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...
Holiday Readiness, Part II: Best Practices for Detecting and Mitigating Attacks
Stay one step ahead of bad actors this holiday season with best practices to detect and mitigate attacks...
Akamai Turns Up Linode Past 11
Akamai plans to add more than a dozen data centers, equipped with Linode’s full product suite – across North America, APAC, LATAM and Europe by the end of 2023...
DDoS in Financial Services: What to Know and What to Do
Akamai explores trends of recent application-layer DDoS attacks across the Financial Services industry...
Mitigating Log4j Abuse Using Akamai Guardicore Segmentation
Learn how Akamai Guardicore Segmentation can help you reveal vulnerable servers and applications, and stop exploitation...
DNS: The Easiest Way to Exfiltrate Data?
Low throughput DNS exfiltration is a slow and low attack technique that is very hard to detect. Learn how Akamai can quickly detect this in near real time...
Conti?s Hacker Manuals ? Read, Reviewed & Analyzed
Conti is a notorious ransomware group that targets high-revenue organizations. They were first detected in 2020, and appear to be based in Russia. It is believed that the group is the successor to Ryuk ransomware group. According to Chainalysis, The ransomware group was the highest grossing of al...
Mitigating Spring Core “Spring4Shell” Zero-Day
When Spring, the Java-based application, fell victim to cyberattacks, Akamai's Adaptive Security Engine detected zero-day attacks and protected customers against them...
A Fast and Seamless Gaming Experience for Gameloft
Gameloft is a leading gaming provider with more than 20 years of history. The company, created in 2000, has a passion for games and a desire to distribute them to even more players around the world. By bringing the wonders of games to mobile devices and, now, to all digital platforms, Gameloft ha...
Powering and Protecting Online Privacy: iCloud Private Relay and Information for Akamai Customers
See how Apple worked with Akamai to launch iCloud Private Relay. Learn about the service and how it can be best leveraged for Akamai customers...
Operational Readiness and Response to the Ukraine Crisis
Akamai’s security and network teams use our vast view of internet activity to closely monitor and act upon potential cyber threats, and we are taking appropriate measures to review our defensive posture and ensure the integrity of Akamai systems and the Akamai network...
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Build Dynamic, Secure Broadband Access for All of the U.S.
All Americans, regardless of background or location, deserve a fast, safe, and reliable digital experience. Whether in Silicon Valley, rural Montana, or an underserved area in Chicago, entrepreneurs, businesses, and consumers should be on an equal footing online. Unfortunately, that is not the...
The Crypto Revolution Reaches Fever Pitch for Today’s Phishing Scammers
Akamai threat researchers tracked continuous cyberattack and crypto-phishing campaigns that took advantage of cryptocurrency-based scams...
Mirai Botnet Abusing Log4j Vulnerability
Threat Researcher Larry Cashdollar has discovered evidence of the Mirai botnet abusing Log4j vulnerability and shares code examples...
A Log4j Retrospective Part 3: Evolution — Payloads and Attack Diversification
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Magecart Skimmers Are Alive and Well – Constant Vigilance Is Required
Magecart skimmers are here to stay, and they’re becoming more sophisticated, more creative, and harder to detect. In this post, we reveal a new skimmer infrastructure that targets ecommerce sites all over the world with advanced methods of detection evasion and obfuscation...
The Magic of ?What if?: The Next Big Leap in Innovation is Coming
In 1962, futurist Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote ?any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.? And indeed, in the nearly 60 years since Clarke made this statement, we have witnessed giant leaps in technology that initially may have seemed, well, like magic. Think about...
Black Friday Web Traffic Up Over 2020
Online retail traffic that Akamai delivered during Black Friday was up 2% globally compared to Black Friday 2020 and 14% compared to average Friday retail traffic. The modest year-over-year increase can be attributed to the significant rise in 2020 traffic due to COVID-19–related lockdowns and...
Open Finance — 5 Reasons to Consider Akamai
The increased use of smart devices, improved connectivity, and today’s hyper demanding customers are driving the need for digital transformation in the finance sector. Emerging technologies like open banking are creating new opportunities for both incumbent banks and fintechs...
Three Surefire Ways to Boost the Digital Banking Experience
The year 2020 disrupted just about every industry, including retail banking. Locked down at home, consumers were abruptly forced to do all their banking over the internet. The sudden transition profoundly impacted banks and created unprecedented demands on online infrastructure. Some banking site...
Holiday Readiness, Part Two: What you Should be Thinking About Three Months Out—Capacity Planning
Welcome back to the Holiday Readiness blog series. We hope part one has kept you busy over the past month as you continue to improve your security posture. If you haven’t finished all of the security checklist items, don’t worry — there is still time before Black Friday and Cyber Monday...
Holiday Readiness, Part One: What you Should be Thinking About Four Months Out—Security
The beginning of August is upon us, and if you haven’t already started thinking about the busiest time of the year, now is a good time to do so. Whether you’re an experienced veteran of managing peak traffic or new to the game, Q4 can bring surprises when it comes to performance and security. And...
Akamai Helps Q-dance Bring Its Tribe to Defqon.1 at Home -- a Global Virtual Festival Experience
Every year, Q-dance part of the ID&T group, a Dutch electronic music experience company, delights its die-hard fans or their "tribe" at the world's largest hardstyle festival, Defqon.1. Helicopters, simulated earthquakes, special moments like Power Hour, and amazing shows make up the unique...
Better Real User Monitoring with BoomerangJS and Akamai mPulse
In this blog, we'll walk through a few different snippet insertion methods and available optimizations...
The Rapid Resurgence of DDoS Extortion (That Didn't Take Long)
Just when we thought DDoS extortion was fading into the rearview mirror, it's time to circle up the trucks again gas tanks full...
Ohana — An Impact an ERG Can Make
Akamai's Ohana ERG launched in 2015, along with a number of other ERGs, with the mission to broaden and facilitate the inclusion and contributions of employees of African American, Black, Hispanic, and Latin American descent and association...