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Capoae Malware Ramps Up: Uses Multiple Vulnerabilities and Tactics to Spread
Recently, there has been a plethora of UPX packed crypto-mining malware written in Golang targeting Linux systems and web applications popping up in the news. The malware’s primary tactic is to spread by taking advantage of vulnerable systems and weak administrative credentials. Once they’ve been...
Zero Trust Should Not Give IT a Bad Name
Maybe you’ve just found out that your company’s IT organization is implementing Zero Trust. Does that mean they don’t trust you? “Zero Trust” sure sounds that way. Maybe you’ve read about it online or heard somebody talk about it in terms that equate Zero Trust with the idea that users and device...
G2A's Journey to Global Growth, Part 1: Keeping Gamers and Geeks Playing During a Pandemic
Near the end of March 2020, G2A.COM saw its traffic virtually double overnight. The pandemic had just begun, and people were looking for ways to stay entertained and connected under lockdown. Not surprisingly, a lot of people turned to video games, and G2A.COM was one of the first places they wen...
Akamai Summarizes Service Disruption (RESOLVED)
At 15:45 UTC on July 22, 2021, a software configuration update triggered a bug in our Secure Edge Content Delivery Network impacting that network's domain name service DNS system the system that directs browsers to websites for that specific service. This caused a disruption impacting availabilit...
Zero Trust: Not As Scary As It Sounds
If the term Zero Trust has been popping up in your news feed with astonishing frequency lately, you may be tempted to think that Zero Trust must be a brand-new technology cooked up in a research lab at MIT and powered by the latest artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantum computing, and...
Your Employees Want Passwordless. Isn't It Time You Gave It to Them?
I hate passwords. There, I said it. I dread getting an email from Akamai IT telling me it will soon be time to update my password. I procrastinate until the last possible moment instead of immediately doing what is actually a trivial process. I suspect I'm not alone in my dislike for passwords...
SMB Worm Indexsinas
New details in the Indexsinas SMB worm, also dubbed NSABuffMiner...
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...
Visualize and Analyze Bots With Real User Monitoring
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Supporting Akamai Communities Impacted by COVID-19
While those of us in places like the U.S. are experiencing some relief with access to the COVID-19 vaccine, it has been heartbreaking to see surges in infection, hospitalization, and death across the globe, including the dire situation in India...
Observed Changes to the Threat Landscape in 2020
Reflecting on the cybersecurity threat landscape in 2020, we can't overlook the massive changes that landed on us. Global security attacks increased at a significant pace between 2019 and 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic only deepened these troubling conditions...
4 Helpful Features for Centra Users - Policy Monitoring and More
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The Edge is Becoming More Critical in a World of 5G and IoT
The edge is becoming more critical in a world of 5G and IoT. I've seen the evolution from 1x to 3G to 4G and now 5G over the many years I've worked in the mobile space, and 5G and IoT will drive the biggest changes we have seen on the edge in 10 or 20 years...
Phish-Proof Multi-Factor Authentication with Akamai MFA
Today, Akamai announced Akamai MFA, a phish-proof multi-factor authentication MFA service for the workforce that delivers all of the security benefits of FIDO2 with the frictionless end-user experience of a mobile push on a smartphone. Why has Akamai introduced this new service?...
EdgeKV: Serverless Storage at the Edge
We are pleased to announce the launch of EdgeKV, our distributed key-value store, into beta! EdgeKV is enabling technology for EdgeWorkers, our serverless computing platform that enables developers to create services using JavaScript and deploy them across our platform. When writing JavaScript,...
Akamai Startup Program: Fostering Innovation
Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, continues to focus on innovation by launching Cohort 2 of the Akamai Startup program...
NHS Vaccine Scams: Criminals Still Targeting COVID-19 Anxiety
It's 2021, but the anxiety, fear, uncertainty, and stress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 is very much alive today...
Akamai's Internship Program in Krakow
The beginning of a new year is a time to look back and reflect on the previous one. December 31st is also the end date of our annual Krakow Internship Program. Last year's intake was very unique due to the pandemic and the shift towards a remote work environment. Akamai was fortunate to be able t...
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...
Stacking CDNs for Improved Performance and Security
I recently worked with a client whose large e-commerce site was hosted with a popular cloud-based commerce solution. Its business was growing rapidly into new geographic markets, and it was not satisfied with the embedded content delivery network eCDN that was bundled with the cloud solution. We...
Keeping Emissions in Check During Unprecedented Internet Use
As I reflect on 2020 and the way in which the pandemic affected the business world, what stands out to me is the incredible increase in streaming content consumed on the internet. We've seen launches of some of the highest-profile streaming services to date between late 2019 and 2020. People are...
Visualize Visitor Prioritization in Real Time with mPulse
The internet has become one of the most important access points in our daily lives. Unexpected surges in demand can slow web pages and create service outages for unprepared websites. A poor user experience leads to dissatisfied customers, making it more critical than ever to visualize and control...
Ransom Demands Return: New DDoS Extortion Threats From Old Actors Targeting Finance and Retail
Update 08/24/2020 As mentioned below, the Akamai SIRT has been tracking attacks from the so-called Armada Collective and Fancy Bear actors, who are sending ransom letters to various industry verticals such as finance, travel, and e-commerce. In addition to the...
Large, Complex DDoS Attacks on the Rise in 2020
While we've highlighted both record PPS and BPS attacks mitigated on the Akamai Prolexic Platform over the past few weeks, these attacks are part of a broader trend of increasingly large and complex DDoS activity. We have seen clear indications across the industry of high-water mark DDoS attacks...
Parts of a Whole: Effect of COVID-19 on US Internet Traffic
Introduction In our previous post, The Building Wave of Internet Traffic, we looked at the traffic patterns across Europe and the effect the COVID-19 pandemic has had. We examined traffic in Italy, Poland, and Spain, and demonstrated how we observed...
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...
Growing, Exploring and My First Conference
By now, we are all subject in one way or another to the far-reaching impact of COVID-19. As we see on the news each day, the numbers of those infected by this deadly coronavirus continue to grow in terrifying increments. And even for those of us without family members or friends directly impacted...
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...
Enhancing Video Streaming Quality for Exoplayer -- Part 2: Buffering Strategy to Lower Startup Time and Video On-Demand Rebuffering
The first part of this blog series discussed about the quality of user experience QoE metrics and two strategies that heavily influence the QoE: the bitrate selection...
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...
Guardicore Threat Intelligence Helps Cybersecurity Community Research Attacks and Mitigate Risks
This post discusses how Guardicore Labs helps Guardicore customers and the security community enhance their security posture...
A Deep Dive into Point of Sale Security
For many, Point of Sale systems are the weakest link in the IT security chain. Learn the microsegmentation policies that can make a difference...
From the Core to the Edge: 3 Security Imperatives and the Evolving Digital Topology
The breathtaking pace at which everyone and everything is becoming connected is having a profound effect on digital business, from delivering exceptional experiences, to ensuring the security of your customers, applications, and workforce...
Low, Medium and High Interaction Honeypot Security
Honeypots are a popular way to protect data centers and learn about attackers. Learn the difference between high and low interaction honeypot security...
Protecting Your Website Visitors from Magecart
Learn mitigation options that prevent your site from JavaScript skimmer code threats and protects your customers...
Domain Name Consolidation: Observations From the Field
The market and marketing of Web property domain names is changing. Companies prefer to promote top level domains TLDs, have the option of selecting brand-relevant domain extensions e.g. SaaS.com, and no longer need country-relevant domains to optimize search engine result rankings...
Phishing in the Wild: A New Threat Research Paper
Phishing is an extremely common attack vector that has been used for many years, and the potential impact and risks involved are well known to most Internet users. Despite this, phishing is still a highly relevant attack method being used in the wild, affecting many people. The question is, how c...
Illuminating the Path to Digital Maturity
Research By Akamai and Forrester Sheds New Light on Digital Experience Challenges and Opportunities Nearly every business today is striving to create and deliver digital experiences that stand apart. But it's no small task turning those visions into reality. Moreover,...
Experiments with Browser Preconnects
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Retailers capitalize on mobile experiences to generate record revenue during Black Friday and Cyber Monday
The results are in, Black Friday and Cyber Monday broke all records in 2017 as the total revenue for these days exceeded $11.5 billion. Anticipating that more consumers would shop online, retailers invested in digital experiences and geared up for the holidays by i stocking fewer items in stores ...
The Bondnet Army: Questions & Answers
The following is a select list of questions and answers that we hope will shed more light on the botnet...
Revealing Guardicore Reveal™
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Your DNS Is Hiding in HTTPS — This Is Why It Matters
Discover why unmanaged DNS over HTTPS DoH creates security visibility gaps and how a controlled DoH strategy restores visibility without compromising privacy...
Thinking Outside the Black Box: Defenders Need Open Source AI
Discover why open source AI is vital for cybersecurity as we join the Open Secure AI Alliance to build an open, distributed defense stack for the AI era...
A New Definition of Hyperscale
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Langflow Exploited to Build Custom DDoS Gafgyt Botnets
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Adaptive AI for Detecting Modern DGA Attacks
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Distributed AI Inference: Why Placement Is the New Bottleneck
In real AI systems, bottlenecks don't disappear, they move. Learn about why inference placement, not raw compute, is the decisive infrastructure question...