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Akamai software update triggered a bug that took offline major sites

Multiple major websites, including Steam, AWS, Amazon, Google, and Salesforce, went offline due to Akamai DNS global outage. A software…

3 years ago

Akamai outage was caused by an issue with its Prolexic DDoS protection service

An outage suffered by CDN, cybersecurity and cloud services provider Akamai was caused by an issue with its Prolexic DDoS…

3 years ago

Akamai Q2 2016 report, the number of DDoS attacks has doubled in one year

According to the Akamai Q2 2016 report, the number of distributed denial of service attacks has doubled over the last…

8 years ago

Akamai Threat Advisory – Evolution of DDoS attacks

According to the US-based Akamai Technologies Distributed Denial Of Service (DDoS) attacks have a great level of sophistication today. The Morris…

8 years ago

Cyber criminal crew DD4BC extorts businesses via DDoS

According to a report recently issued by Akamai, the DD4BC criminal group has been responsible for at least 114 DDoS…

9 years ago

DDoS Attacks on the rise in Q1 2015, says Akamai

DDoS attacks even more dangerous according to the last report published by Akamai Technologies, the "Q1 2015 State of the…

9 years ago

Joomla Reflection DDoS attacks exploit a Google Maps Plugin flaws

Akamai firm discovered numerous attacks exploiting a known vulnerability in a Google Maps plugin to run Joomla Reflection DDoS attacks…

9 years ago

Millions vulnerable UPnP devices vulnerable to attack

Researchers at Akamai firm have issued a report on reflection and amplification DDoS attacks exploiting vulnerable UPnP devices worldwide. Researchers…

10 years ago

Spike botnet runs DDoS attacks from IoT devices

Experts at Akamai spotted a new malware kit named Spike which is used by bad actors to run DDoS attacks…

10 years ago

IptabLes and IptabLex botnet targeting Linux servers to run large-scale DDoS attacks

Experts at Akamai-Prolexic discovered a botnet dubbed IptabLes and IptabLex that infects and exploits poorly-maintained Linux servers to run DDoS…

10 years ago

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