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Akamai Prolexic and Equinix Cloud Exchange Bring DDoS Defense Closer to the Origin
In terms of cyberthreats and digital risk, 2020 has been all about distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks...
Evading Link Scanning Security Services with Passive Fingerprinting
By Gal Bitensky, Executive Summary Link scanners are a critical component in multiple classes of security products including email security suites, websites that suggest direct inspection of a suspicious link, and others. Behind the scenes, these services use web clients...
Don't Let DDoS Extortionists Deliver a KO Punch
Since mid-August, a variety of threat actors and copycats alike have been targeting organizations across all industries globally, threatening impending DDoS attacks unless Bitcoin is paid out. It's apparent, as the campaign rages on, that some businesses must be paying the extortion demands, --...
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...
ATA 8.0 Graduation Ceremony
Akamai Technical Academy is a training program designed for people who have an interest and aptitude for technology but may not come from a traditional technical background. Up until now, we have successfully onboarded over 140 incredible people in three Akamai locations: Cambridge MA, US, San Jo...
Unprecedented Levels of Ransom DDoS Extortion Attacks
The FBI has released a flash warning that thousands of organizations around the world, and across multiple industries, have been threatened with DDoS attacks unless they pay a bitcoin ransom. This ransom DDoS, or RDoS, threat was covered by Akamai's Security Intelligence Response Team SIRT in a...
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...
How Criminals Attack the Games Industry
If you work in the video games industry, it's already obvious that security is a challenge, and criminals are a threat. But how much do you know about how the criminal economy works? What actually motivates them? What specific methods do they use? And how do they interact with one another?...
A QUICk Introduction to HTTP/3
HTTP/3 is the newest iteration of the HTTP protocol that improves web security and performance...
Abusing the Service Workers API
The Service Worker web API is a powerful new API for web browsers. During our research, we have found several ways attackers can leverage this API to enhance their low-to-medium risk findings into a powerful and meaningful attack. By...
Fake Cozy Bear Group Making DDoS Extortion Demands
A group calling themselves "Cozy Bear" has been emailing various companies with an extortion letter, demanding payment and threatening targeted DDoS attacks if their demands are not met...
Enhancing Customer Value, Building Customer Relationships and Strengthening Team Collaboration
Effective communication skills are fundamental to developing both immediate and long term relationships with our customers. How else can we learn the answers to questions such as: "What are our customers concerns, needs, and desires?", "How can we best address their short and long term needs?", A...
In Conversation: Career Development as a Parent
Technology can only continue to thrive with the direct influence of those involved in its evolution. When the experiences of those people are broad, the tech industry benefits from the diversity of what they bring to the table. At Akamai,...
Deployment Diversity for DNS Resiliency
Similar to diverse workforces performing at a higher level, diverse network service deployments perform at a higher level that is increasingly important as the Internet continues to augment our reality. Akamai has 20 years of edge service deployment experience. Akamai's Intelligent Edge has prove...
Zero Trust and the Identity
Digital transformation is occurring faster than most people realize, and is impacting every component of the IT organization. Some of the many catalysts include users and applications moving outside the traditional perimeter, users accessing applications that are anywhere, and utilizing many...
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...
Introducing Web Security Analytics
Every security team knows that the success of any security product relies heavily on the ability to maintain an optimal security configuration. Any misconfiguration can result in malicious or undesired traffic reaching the application, or worse - legitimate traffic being blocked. In addition, it...
When Looking for SWIFT Audit Guidelines, Beware of the Customer Security Controls Framework
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With Val Kilmer’s AI Twin, Is Gen AI Forcing Hollywood to the Edge?
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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...
How Partners Can Defend the Network and Ease AI Anxiety
Learn how Akamai Guardicore Segmentation empowers partners to ease customer AI anxiety and contain machine-speed exploits with automated microsegmentation...
CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137: Mitigating a Critical Unauthenticated RCE Chain in WordPress
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Langflow Exploited to Build Custom DDoS Gafgyt Botnets
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CVE-2026-48282: Mitigating a Critical Vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion
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The Hidden Latency Tax in Retail Personalization
Every personalization decision adds latency that has a measurable cost in conversions and order value. Learn where that cost comes from — and how to avoid paying it...
AI Reconnaissance: The Missing Layer in Chatbot Security
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How Akamai's Zero Trust Framework Meets Critical U.S. Government Mandates
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The New Ouroboros Technique and How It Fits in dMSA’s Security Model
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How a Streaming Company Scaled Akamai EdgeWorkers to 3 Trillion Requests
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Apps, APIs, and DDoS 2026: The Industrialization of Cyberattack Campaigns
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The Mistral–Koyeb Deal and the Shift Toward Architectural Maturity in AI
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Build Transformative Security with AI-Powered WAF Detections
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Avoid Evasive Scraping with Stronger Content Protection
Learn about the enhancements to Akamai Content Protector that stop evasive scraping across web and mobile while minimizing user friction and false positives...
When Uptime Is Non-Negotiable: Rethinking Zero Trust for OT Environments
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Patch Wednesday: Root Cause Analysis with LLMs
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Empower CISOs with Visibility, Agility, Compliance, and Strategic ROI
Learn how Akamai Prolexic Network Cloud Firewall allows CISOs to manage risk, resilience, and reputation by delivering visibility, agility, and proactive defense...
Aggregated Rate Limiting Defends Against Large-Scale and DDoS Attacks
Discover how Akamai’s new aggregated rate limiting strengthens defenses against large-scale, distributed DDoS attacks, and API abuse with smarter detection...
Discover the 3 Stages of Cloud Maturity by Taking Our Quiz
Discover the three stages of the cloud maturity model and learn how cloud adoption, strategy, and security drive digital transformation...
Off Your Docker: Exposed APIs Are Targeted in New Malware Strain
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OpenAPI Documentation for Spin Apps with Rust
Learn how to create, customize, and serve OpenAPI Documentation from within Spin apps written in Rust...
Gartner Market Guide: Microsegmentation for Zero Trust and Resilience
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An Intentionally Engineered Platform for a More Responsible Internet
Learn how Akamai delivers performance, security, and scale on a platform that's also built for sustainability...
Scaling Spin Apps With KEDA
Scale Spin apps on Kubernetes using SpinKube and KEDA for event-driven autoscaling based on Amazon SQS queue metrics...
Protect Client-Side Code and Certify the Authenticity of Data Collection
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Serverless A2A with Spin
Learn how to build serverless agent-to-agent A2A apps with Spin...
Secure Your Enterprise with Robust DNS: A Guide to NIST SP 800-81r3
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Beyond Implementation: Building a Zero Trust Strategy That Works
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Fog Computing vs. Edge Computing: Their Roles in Modern Technology
Fog computing vs. edge computing: Understand how they compare, their unique benefits, and which is best for your data processing needs in IoT and beyond...
Damage Control: Why Building Cyber Resilience Is Non-Negotiable
It’s only a matter of time before attackers find a crack in your security armour. Learn how to combine resilience with compliance and protect what matters most...
AI in Cybersecurity: How AI Is Impacting the Fight Against Cybercrime
AI is transforming cybersecurity. Explore how hackers use AI for cybercrimes and how cybersecurity experts use AI to prevent, detect, and respond to attacks...