Akamai: US Post Office phishing sites got significantly more DNS queries, cumulatively, than the legitimate website during some weeks of the 2023 holiday season
Security researchers analyzing phishing campaigns that target United States Postal Service (USPS) saw that the traffic …
Akamai says attackers are exploiting a fleet of 100K+ misconfigured servers to amplify DDoS attacks on banking, travel, gaming, media, and web-hosting sites
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
Several major websites and services, including Amazon, Steam, and Airbnb, were down for about an hour on Thursday due to issues with Akamai's Edge DNS service
Update 12:48 p.m. ET: Akamai says it has implemented a fix for the issue. “We have implemented a fix for this issue …
Akamai finds a botnet using bitcoin transactions to put its control server's IP address on the blockchain, making it basically impossible to fully take down
Akamai: there were 55B credential stuffing attacks between Nov. '17 and March '19; US was the top source and target, with 67% of attacks targeting US-based orgs
Hackers have targeted the gaming industry by carrying out 12 billion credential stuffing attacks against gaming websites …
Akamai: 43% of 17B login requests tracked via Akamai platform in November and December involved credential abuse, with bots using stolen login credentials
Phil Muncaster / Infosecurity Magazine :
Cisco Talos report: hackers who hid backdoor in CCleaner targeted computers inside at least 20 tech firms including Akamai, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of computers getting penetrated by a corrupted version of an ultra-common piece of security software was never going to end well.
Six firms including Akamai, Cloudflare, Google team up to disrupt WireX botnet, which compromised tens of thousands of Android devices and launched DDoS attacks
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
Brian Krebs' site hit by record 620Gbps sustained DDoS attack, nearly twice as big as any previous attack seen by Akamai; the site will be “offline for a while”
Paul Szoldra / Business Insider :
Brian Krebs' site hit by record 620Gbps sustained DDos attack, nearly twice as big as any previous attack seen by Akamai; the site will be “offline for a while”
Cloud hosting giant Akamai Technologies has dumped journalist Brian Krebs from its servers after his website came under a “record” cyberattack.