The Akamai Q4 2017 security report from its SIRT (Security Intelligence Response Team) is the latest in its in-depth security reports quarterly on The State of the Internet. Their report on Q4 2017 highlights various continued threats and identifies several new ones.
Fastly and Cloudflare both recently published end-of-year posts looking at the DDoS landscape as a whole. Both CDNs note the ways in which the DDoS landscape is evolving and the trend in increasingly sophisticated types of DDoS attack. Fastly’s position
The Mirai botnet made global headlines when it knocked out Dyn DNS and took many prominent websites offline on the East Coast. Now there’s a botnet powered by a new malware that has been unleashed upon the West Coast of
Level 3 Communications has reported that since the release of the Mirai source code, the total number of IoT devices infected with the Mirai malware has reached 493,000, over double from 213,000 bots. Since the source code for Mirai was
