A Log4j Retrospective Part 2: Data Exfiltration and Remote Code Execution Exploits

Akamai CTO Charlie Gero shows how the Log4j threat surface could extend to unpatchable embedded and IoT devices...

Abuse and Fraud Prevention's Co-Created Future — Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

Explore some of the Akamai Abuse and Fraud Prevention team’s predictions for the future of abuse and fraud protection in 2022 and beyond...

Keeping Up with the Botnets

It’s no secret that the global pandemic increased opportunities for threat actors and cybercriminals to target financial services. Throughout 2020, scammers used the economic tension caused by COVID-19 — the promise of financial assistance, the stress of financial hardship — to target people acro...

Announcing Property Manager Extensions for the Integrated Development Environment

We’re proud to announce the 1.0 release of the Property Manager extension to Visual Studio Code and Eclipse. With the new Property Manager extension, you can edit and validate Property Manager API PAPI JSON rule trees right from your integrated development environment IDE. It allows you to make a...

Cyber Monday Web Traffic Up Over 2020

Online retail traffic that Akamai delivered during Cyber Monday was up 5% globally compared to Cyber Monday 2020 and 31% compared to average Monday traffic...

Getting Ready for Some Holiday Shopping? So Are the Bots

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Finding My Way as an Akamai Intern

It’s an exciting time to be starting a career in digital – but even more so when it’s at a company like Akamai. An organization driven by a commitment to developing talent within the industry, Akamai is an intellectually rigorous, demanding, and rewarding environment to be in at any level. But fo...

RTL Nederland Makes Weather Forecasting Fast, Reliable and Sustainable with Help From Akamai

Media giant RTL Nederland offers a weather app that gives users the ability to get a comprehensive overview of the weather in their location at the click of a button. Akamai is delighted that this exciting media brand has chosen us to deliver a rich and engaging web experience for its viewers whi...

Redefining Security at the Mobile Edge

During the pandemic, organizations became more geographically dispersed, even if that only means people working from home instead of the office. As businesses begin to open up again, the trend is leaning toward mobility as a means to support a hybrid working environment, in which employees have...

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...

Akamai’s Flagship Customer Enablement Program, Akamai University, Wins Gold “Excellence in Learning” Award

The Technical Enablement and Education team, part of Akamai’s Global Services organization, has won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Gold award for “Best Customer Training Program,” for Akamai’s flagship customer training and enablement program, Akamai University...

Critical 9.9 Vulnerability in Hyper-V Allowed Attackers to Exploit Azure

Guardicore Labs, in collaboration with SafeBreach Labs, found a critical vulnerability in Hyper-V’s virtual network switch driver vmswitch.sys...

World-Class OTT Streaming from MwareTV with Akamai

Since the onset of the pandemic, home entertainment has never been more important. Millions of users across the globe have turned to over-the-top OTT streaming and live TV to bring much-needed diversion and exciting content into their lives...

HTTP/3 and QUIC: Past, Present, and Future

You may have seen the announcements over the past two weeks -- the IETF QUIC RFCs have been published! That leads to a lot of questions, depending on how closely you've followed this space...

Akamai Provides Prolexic DDoS Service Impact Update (Status: Resolved)

Akamai experienced an outage for one of its Prolexic DDoS services Routed 3.0 starting at 4:20 AM UTC. We detected the issue immediately, and impacted customers received an error alert within seconds. The impact was limited to Akamai customers using version 3.0 of the Routed service...

Romanian Crypto Mining Infection

While examining my honeypot logs and digging through the newly downloaded binaries last week, I noticed a large compressed file. I figured it would be a crypto miner, typically a tar archive and gzip normally erroneously compressed. I moved the archive over to my test lab and started examining th...

Digital Transformation Usain Bolt-Style: Health Care's Sprint to Modernization

In the present age, patients now use smartphone apps to schedule doctor's visits, contact insurance companies, and get prescriptions instead of picking up the phone...

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...

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...

The Akamai Foundation: Our Chance to Give Back

The Akamai Foundation was set up in 2018 to improve the impact and focus of our long-term philanthropic activities...

Akamai Launch Cohort 2 of Accelerator Program For Early-Stage Innovations in Water

Akamai Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. has chosen the grantees for Cohort 2 of Accelerator Program for Early-Stage Innovations in Water...

Sensor Architecture Can Help Keep Us Up and Running: Part 1

In the constant press of rolling out ever better products and services to our customers, it can be easy-- and often necessary-- to fall into a reactive mode around reliability...

Credential Stuffing and Account Takeover -- The Business View

Account takeovers ATOs, in which criminals impersonate legitimate account owners in order to take control of an account, cause tremendous pain for businesses in all industries. This pain may be monetary, such as losses from stolen accounts, but may also include a number of related problems, like...

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...

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...

Our ESG Commitment: Investing in a Better World

Environmental, social, and governance ESG issues are quickly emerging as a key concern for investors. To use a musical analogy, the bow is just resting on the first string, with more notes sure to follow. At Akamai, our ESG instrument is well tuned and ready for the symphony to come, as evidenced...

Akamai's Technical Enablement and Education Team, Part of the Global Services and Support Organization, Wins 2020 Chief Learning Officer Magazine Gold Award

On October 2020, the Akamai Technical Enablement and Education TE&E Team -- responsible for creating product-training certifications for employees Global Services and Support GSS, customers Akamai University, and channel partners Advanced Partner Enablement -- won its second industry award for...

Cyberweek 2020 Attracted Both Online Shoppers and DDoS Attackers

2020 has shown both record-busting bps and pps attacks and the most prolific DDoS extortion campaign recorded by Akamai...

Distinguishing Among DNS Services Part 2: The Economics

This is Part 2 of a 3-part blog series highlighting some of the distinguishing aspects of Akamai's DNS services, Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management...

WordPress Malware Setting Up SEO Shops

While recently looking over my honeypots, I discovered an infection where a malicious actor added a storefront on top of my existing WordPress installation. For background, this particular honeypot is a full instance of WordPress running on a Docker image...

Redundant, Secure, and Open Short Domains: A Vision for Multi-Provider Apex Domain Aliases to Enable DNS Diversity

Human nature is to seek simpler and convenient ways to do things. One example is the sometimes onerous task of typing a URL into a web browser's address bar. Since users prefer short, easy-to-remember URLs, an internet trend is to use short domains for websites e.g., edgedns.zone. With short...

Phishing JavaScript Obfuscation Techniques Soars

In our previous blogs, first where we explained JavaScript Obfuscation techniques and introduced a detailed overview on how JavaScript is being used to obfuscate page content to make phishing attacks and other web scams as evasive as possible; followed by one where we took a deep dive to examine...

Why Take It to the Edge

Edge computing is the next natural paradigm shift in IT, bringing a new wave of decentralization. Over the past decade, IT has embraced two seemingly juxtaposed trends: the consolidation of infrastructure and data in private, public, or hybrid clouds, and the growing distribution and diversity of...

Headwinds and Tailwinds - Cycling For Climate Awareness in a Global Pandemic

If you told me at the beginning of 2020 that I'd be cycling 250 miles in the remote Upper Peninsula of Michigan, fundraising for an organization called "Climate Ride", and wearing a face mask to go grocery shopping - I would not have believed you. Yet, since March 2020, we've all been living the...

How to Do Micro-Segmentation the Right Way

Micro-segmentation is the central IT security best practice response to overly-permissive policies. Learn how to do it right...

The Vollgar Campaign: MS-SQL Servers Under Attack

Guardicore Labs uncovers an attack campaign that’s been under the radar for almost two years, breaching MS-SQL servers and infecting them with remote-access tools and cryptominers...

Tackling DGA Based Malware Detection in DNS Traffic

Earlier this year, Akamai's Enterprise team tackled the problem of DGA detection in the wild by using Neural Networks, essentially creating a state-of-the-art solution for near online detection of DGA communication...

At 21 Tbps, Reaching New Levels of IPv6 Traffic

The global adoption of IPv6 is important to the future of the internet and Akamai has been committed to helping move IPv6 deployment forward ever since we launched production IPv6 support in 2012...

Supporting COVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts with Vaccine Edge

Global efforts to produce and distribute the COVID-19 vaccine continue to race ahead. But in many cases, that race is an uphill climb. Beyond the challenges in making enough of the vaccine, educating the public, and the logistics of distributing the doses, there is a new challenge. Bots...

Akamai Foundation and Social Responsibility

Recently, at Akamai, we launched the Akamai Foundation, to continue to reach a broader, more diverse range of young people with quality Science, Technology, Engineering and Math STEM education. We believe that this work is a vital part of securing...

Data in the dark: Data protection

Hyperconnectivity is on the rise and, as a result, corporations' capacity to protect their own and their customers' data becomes more and more limited. Connection takes place over a network, so, as connection increases, that network increases in size...

Maximizing Onboarding: Giving managers the skills for success

Managing teams come with challenges as well as rewards. Managers drive individual and team performance, and the best managers drive employee connection and engagement. Akamai believes that employees are our biggest asset; by effectively and efficiently integrating them into the...

Device Hopping Shoppers Drive Up Bounce Rates Leading Into Holiday 2019

Executive Summary In 2018, Akamai reported for the first time that shoppers used mobile devices more than desktops for all the major peak traffic events we measured. Interestingly, they often don't complete their purchase on a mobile device. If the most recently concluded back-to-school shopping...

Akamai Partners with Supplier To Meet Sustainability Goals

Akamai strives to mitigate the impact of our operations while maximizing and enhancing the benefits of our sustainable business practices. We are working hard to hit our sustainability goals by: creating a more sustainable platform through reducing network energy intensity by way of engineering...

New DDoS Vector Observed in the Wild: WSD Attacks Hitting 35/Gbps

Additional research and support provided by Chad Seaman. Introduction Members of Akamai's Security Intelligence Response Team have been investigating a new DDoS vector that leverages a UDP Amplification technique known as WS-Discovery WSD. The situation surrounding WSD was recently made...

Latest ECHOBOT: 26 Infection Vectors

Introduction Since the release of the Mirai source code in October of 2016, there have been hundreds of variants. While publishing my own research, I noticed that Palo Alto Networks was also examining similar samples, and published their findings. Earlier...

In Conversation: New Starters

The world is changing. At Akamai, we're proud to be part of the shift towards a more inclusive future. Where digital systems may replace human processes, we are determined to keep people at the center of our focus. After all,...

Our Ceiling, Their Floor, Educating the Future

Throughout this blog series, we've been discussing the future of tech in relation to our young people. At Akamai, our outreach programs and forward-thinking culture have positioned us as part of the movement determined to make the world better for...

Containers vs Virtual Machines – Your Cheat Sheet to Know the Differences

Containers vs virtual machines is an ongoing debate in many IT shops around the world. Learn what makes each unique, their common use cases, and how to keep both secure...

Akamai in the Community: Making Tech Accessible

Here at Akamai, we believe every person is important, and that no one should be left out. Our internal culture is cultivated by looking outwards, into the community, to make the life of our society better. Not only do we...