A Look Back at Which Predictions Came True in 2021

In 2021, cybercriminals took aim at critical infrastructure with ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline, JBS and others. They also continued to find new ways to exploit employees working remotely, those seeking information ...
Burnout in Cybersecurity Community

Burnout in the Cybersecurity Community

It is Monday morning and 9am has come too early. You did not sleep well; that unfinished client report weighed […] ...
Supporting Akamai Communities Impacted by COVID-19

Supporting Akamai Communities Impacted by COVID-19

While those of us in places like the U.S. are experiencing some relief with access to the COVID-19 vaccine, it has been heartbreaking to see surges in infection, hospitalization, and death across ...
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Games Drive Christmas Web Traffic

If you turned on a new game console and/or downloaded video games over the holidays, you certainly weren't alone. New data from Akamai shows that game-related traffic delivered across our network was ...
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Online Shoppers Undeterred by COVID as Holiday Shopping Season Shifts Earlier

Holiday shoppers are overcoming worries and restrictions and easily adapting to new shopping norms as the COVID-19 pandemic has invaded our lives and made us overwhelmingly dependent on online and mobile activity ...
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Cyberattacks Evolve as the Hospitality and Travel Industry Adapts

While the world fights against the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercriminals are out in full force with a multitude of scams designed to take advantage of the confusion and panic. COVID-19 has -- by ...

The Security Value of Inefficiency

For decades, we have prized efficiency in our economy. We strive for it. We reward it. In normal times, that's a good thing. Running just at the margins is efficient. A single ...
M00nD3v, HawkEye threat actor, sells malware after COVID-19 diagnosis

M00nD3v, HawkEye threat actor, sells malware after COVID-19 diagnosis

Key Points The information-stealing malware dubbed M00nD3v Logger was recently auctioned off on Hack Forums, together with HakwEye Reborn. The threat actor – operating under the alias “M00nD3v” – states that they ...

COVID-19 Risks of Flying

I fly a lot. Over the past five years, my average speed has been 32 miles an hour. That all changed mid-March. It's been 105 days since I've been on an airplane ...

Criminals and the Normalization of Masks

I was wondering about this: Masks that have made criminals stand apart long before bandanna-wearing robbers knocked over stagecoaches in the Old West and ski-masked bandits held up banks now allow them ...