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Phishing is so last year: Akamai's report finds that zero-day and one-day vulnerabilities caused a 143% increase in total ransomware victims. Akamai's ransomware report released at Black Hat 2023 revealed that exploitation of zero-day and one-day vulnerabilities has led to a 143% increase in total ransomware victims with data exfiltration of files at the end of the kill chain, now the primary source of extortion.
The 2023 SANS Survey on API Security found that the top risk is phishing attacks. The 2023 global survey, which polled 231 application security professionals, found that fewer than 50% of respondents have API security testing tools in place and only 29% have API discovery tools.
Attacks on commerce are booming, according to a new study by security firm Akamai. Bots raining on retail drive flood in commerce attacks.
Botnets are also getting easier to build and deploy because, much like legitimate software development, malicious botnets can be created using existing codebases. One example of how little technical sophistication is required is evinced by a botnet dubbed Dark Frost by researchers at Akamai web services.
Content delivery network and cloud services provider Akamai, which recently acquired API security firm Neosec in a deal expected to close in the next two weeks, is joining the API security ecosystem. Akamai noted companies use an average of 1,061 apps and, to give a sense of the scope of attacks, noted that there were 161 million API attacks on Oct. 8, 2022 and peaked on Oct. 9.
Akamai reports having mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever launched against a customer based in the Asia-Pacific region. DDoS is an attack that involves sending a large volume of garbage requests to a targeted server, depleting its capacity, and thus rendering the websites, applications, or other online services it hosts unreachable by legitimate users.
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A new distributed denial-of-service attack that took place on Monday, September 12, has broken the previous record that Akamai recorded recently in July. The cybersecurity and cloud services company Akamai reports that the recent attack appears to originate from the same threat actor, meaning that the operators are in the process of empowering their swarm further.
Akamai Technologies squelched the largest-ever distributed denial-of-service attack in Europe earlier this month against a company that was being consistently hammered over a 30-day period. The user datagram protocol was the most popular vector used in the attack and was seen in the record spikes.