Akamai Technologies

Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, reckons he can handle edge AI alone

Interview OG CDN boss says fighting illegal streams is about stopping criminals cashing in, not free speech

Legal20 Jan 2026 | 12

Coyote malware abuses Microsoft's UI Automation to hunt banking creds

Some coyotes hunt squirrels, this one hunts users' financial apps

Research24 Jul 2025 | 1

Critical Wazuh bug exploited in growing Mirai botnet infection

The open-source XDR/SIEM provider’s servers are in other botnets’ crosshairs too

Research10 Jun 2025 |

Why is my Mitel phone DDoSing strangers? Oh, it was roped into a new Mirai botnet

And now you won't stop calling me, I'm kinda busy

CSO29 Jan 2025 | 4

Akamai to quit its CDN in China, seemingly not due to trouble from Beijing

Security and cloud compute have so much more upside than the boring business of shifting bits

Security08 Jan 2025 | 4

Retired Akamai CEO sues daughter's ex-husband over unpaid millions

Updated And you thought your in-laws were bad

Offbeat03 Jan 2024 | 6

Attacks abuse Microsoft DHCP to spoof DNS records and steal secrets

Akamai says it reported the flaws to Microsoft. Redmond shrugged

Security07 Dec 2023 | 12

Huge DDoS attack against US financial institution thwarted

Akamai reckons traffic flood peaked at 55.1 million packets per second

Cyber-crime11 Sep 2023 | 1

Akamai lofts cloud services over Chicago, Washington DC, Paris

'Premium' instances, bigger buckets available too

PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2023 |

Akamai to expand Linode into a cloud so good you’ll want your data to leave it

Promises tiny egress costs and a better way to do distributed microservices

PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2023 | 1

Months after NSA disclosed Microsoft cert bug, datacenters remain unpatched

You know when we all said quit using MD5? We really meant it

CSO26 Jan 2023 | 3

The web's cruising at 13 million new and nefarious domain names a month

Or so Akamai is dying to tell us

Research28 Sep 2022 | 10

Eastern European org hit by second record-smashing DDoS attack

Cough, cough, U, cough, kraine

Security16 Sep 2022 | 7

Akamai: We stopped record DDoS attack in Europe

A 'sophisticated, global botnet' held an Eastern European biz under siege over 30 days

Cyber-crime01 Aug 2022 | 12

Let's play everyone's favorite game: REvil? Or Not REvil?

Another day, another DDoS attack that tries to scare the victim into paying up with mention of dreaded gang

Cyber-crime27 May 2022 | 3

Mitel VoIP systems used in staggering DDoS attacks

One malicious network packet can theoretically spark billions more against a victim

Security10 Mar 2022 | 10

Cloudflare, Akamai: Why we're not pulling out of Russia

Yanking connectivity would do more harm than good, they say

PaaS + IaaS08 Mar 2022 | 44

Akamai's Linode buy: Good for enterprise, risky for others

Opinion Feisty indies that do too well don't stay indie for long

SaaS21 Feb 2022 | 12

Akamai buys Linode for $900m

Combined internet titan plans offerings that do the 'cloud to edge' thing at super-size scale

PaaS + IaaS16 Feb 2022 | 9

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