#Botattacks

See how AI bots impact publishers and how Akamai helps you protect, control, and monetize your content as AI reshapes how people find information.

See details and IOCs of Akamai SIRT’s discovery of active exploitation of the command injection vulnerabilities CVE-2024-6047 and CVE-2024-11120.

The Akamai SIRT has uncovered a new Mirai-based Aquabot variant being spread by exploiting a command injection vulnerability in Mitel SIP models.

Get a detailed look at Akamai’s bot reporting and the important advantages it offers to organizations that are looking to improve their bot defenses.

Security threats in games are at an all-time high. See the statistics and learn what you should be looking out for as a security professional in games.

In this blog post, part two of our three-part web scraping series, we examine “good” bots, scalping, business intelligence, and more.

Learn about the tactics that fraudsters use to execute and exploit vulnerabilities in account opening abuse in part two of our three-part blog series.

Independent analyst organization KuppingerCole named Akamai an Overall Leader in Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms.

KmsdBot is back — and, this time, it’s going after IoT devices. Read about the updates to the binary and their effects, which reinforce the need for robust security measures.

Today’s threat actors use advanced techniques to engage in account takeover fraud. Preventing account abuse requires a sophisticated detection strategy.

Account takeover (ATO) fraud and other malicious cyberattacks can be devastating for financial institutions. Here are three ways to fight ATO fraud.

From Linode Blog: Akamai SIRT Security Advisory: CVE-2023-26801 Exploited to Spread Mirai Botnet Malware

Akamai announces enhancements to our online fraud and abuse solutions to keep organizations ahead of malicious bots and operators.

As part of our research into the cryptomining botnet kmsdbot, we rendered it useless.

Akamai security research has observed a new malware: a cryptominer with dreams of DDoS functionality. Read about kmdsbot in this blog.

Bots can be used for good, but can also be nefarious. In this post, see Akamai's research on the Israeli Gamken bot copycat.

Akamai researchers have discovered a new P2P botnet targeting APJ. Read about it here.

Obviously we’re proud to be a leader. Bot management is a contact sport, where being great is a requirement if you want to stop the persistent adversarial bots.…

Akamai data shows that in the days leading up to and including Lunar New Year, the activity of malicious bots increased 15% in China over the previous month.…

One aspect of resilience on the internet is that things — notably servers and resources — move around. Sometimes moves are legitimate, such as when a popular site evolves from hosting their own website to moving to a cloud provider to using a CDN to…