Ransomware is everywhere. And the shift of workloads to the cloud and employees to work-from-home models has only expanded the attack surface, creating new opportunities for attackers to leverage. Companies need Zero Trust solutions that not only defen…
The Great Leak: Microsoft Exchange AutoDiscover Design Flaw
Recently a “design flaw” in the Microsoft Exchange’s Autodiscover protocol was discovered by researchers that allowed access to 372,072 Windows domain credentials and 96,671 unique sets of credentials from applications such as Microso…
Monitoring Our Hay Storage with Edge Connect and Machine Learning
What do hay storage, Akamai?s Edge Connect solution, and machine learning have in common? We use the serverless machine learning system to keep our hay storage safe and secure.
Akamai Named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Web Application and API Protection
This week, Gartner released its new 2021 Magic Quadrant for Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) report, which replaces the Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls (WAF) report, and Akamai has been named a Leader. Akamai was named a Leader in…
Autodiscovering the Great Leak
See the most recent research from Amit Serper on a vulnerability in Autodiscover from Microsoft Outlook that affects credential leaks.
What Is a TCP Three-Way Handshake?
The TCP three-way handshake is one of the critical building blocks of the internet. It facilitates the smooth and consistent flow of information across and among different networks without compromising security.
DDoS Chart Toppers?BPS, PPS and RPS Greatest Hits
New to the scene, monster-sized botnet M?ris is raising some eyebrows with giant requests per second (rps) attacks as shared by Cloudflare (17.2M rps, reported August 19), Yandex (peaking at 21.8M rps on September 5), and KrebsOnSecurity (2M rps on Sep…
Learn How Akamai Enables AI Powered Analytics Tools to Reduce Water Losses
The Accelerator Program, a flagship initiative of Akamai India?s Corporate Social Responsibility Trust, enables early-stage innovations for water conservation. Over the past two years, along with our mentoring partner, the International Center for Clea…
Kinsing evolves, adds Windows to attack list
The campaign was first seen by the Akamai SIRT on February 16, 2021, and appears to be targeting both Windows and Linux systems. The botnet caught our interest because it has shown to be highly active across a diverse set of geographical regions, inclu…
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 …