Making sense of the new age of information security and web performance.
The State of the Internet series provides expert insights on the cloud security and web performance landscape, based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform.
New threats appear every day. This report examines them and provides insight into how to protect your company.
Why Android mobile browsers are complicated and how they impact user experience.
XMR Cryptomining Targetng X86/I686 Systems
Larry Cashdollar
We investigate a coin-mining malware that made a jump from ARM-powered IoT devices to Intel systems.
Summer Phishing Scams Targeting Vacation Hotspotss
Or Katz
Our Research Team analyzes patterns and trends in a phishing attack campaign targeting vacationers.
Criminals Using Targeted Remote File Inclusion Attacks in Phishing Campaigns
Larry Cashdollar
We look at how investigating RFI vulnerability attacks uncovered a campaign to deploy phishing kits.
Adversarial DGA - Is It Out There?
Asif Nadler
We describe three Adversarial DGA attacks that were published recently, and a question whether they are actually used by attackers.
Pykspa v2 DGA Updated to Become Selective
Lior Lahav
Akamai researchers track and analyze recent changes to the Pykspa v2 domain generation algorithm (DGA) and how they have made it more selective.
SIRT Advisory: Silexbot Bricking Systems With Known Default Login Credentials
Larry Cashdollar
We look at a new bot using known default credentials for IoT devices to login and kill the system.
Phishing Analytics - Tracking A Campaign
Or Katz
We look at analytics and correlate various stats to better understand how phishing campaigns work from within.
CloudTest Vulnerability (CVE-2019-11011)
Akamai Threat Research Team
A new version of CloudTest is available that addresses a critical security vulnerability.