As the findings in this report show, these attacks are also having a greater impact, adding to pressure on security leaders to choose the right solutions and keep the entire environment safe, without sacrificing overall performance or innovation. The 1,200 respondents agreed overwhelmingly on the effectiveness of segmentation in keeping assets protected, but their overall progress in deploying it around critical business applications and assets was lower than expected.

In this edition of the State of the Internet/Security (SOTI) report, we continue to research the array of attacks observed in web applications and API, their impacts on the organization, and how vulnerabilities figure in the API landscape. Our goal is to illustrate the dangers posed by the web application and API attacks, with recommendations on how to successfully defend your network against such attacks.

In this latest State of the Internet/Security (SOTI) report, we examine various attack types that commerce organizations and their customers face. We explore our multitude of datasets in areas such as web applications, bots, phishing, and usage of third-party scripts, to get a “pulse” of what’s happening in this sector and help cybersecurity leaders and practitioners understand some of the threat trends impacting the commerce industry. Akamai sees an enormous number of attacks across all our security tools, so we can share the shifts we see in malware attacks, customer impacts, regulatory requirements, and emerging threats.

We lay out the ransomware landscape in this State of the Internet (SOTI) report by exploring some of the most effective attack techniques and tools that ransomware groups are utilizing to achieve initial access through exfiltration. We also provide an extensive list of safeguarding techniques and recommendations. It is crucial that both industries and individuals protect themselves from the new wave of ransomware attacks, and this report will help provide insights for better defense and risk management of this growing concern.

The Evolution of DDoS: Return of the Hacktivists is a joint report by FS-ISAC and Akamai to educate our community on the new and evolving threat of DDoS, the business risks it poses, and best practices on mitigation for the sector to better combat these attacks.

In this edition, we look at the attacks and trends in the gaming industry during 2020. It was a volatile year, and we’re not just speaking about the pandemic. Web attacks targeting the gaming industry were up 340% year over year between 2019 and 2020, and credentials stuffing attacks were up 224%. Strangely enough, DDoS attacks against the gaming industry fell by nearly 20% during the same period.

This SOTI report looks at current state of online gaming. it also examines the most pervasive threats coming from online criminals. Ans to fully explore the topic of attacks on gaming, we dig deeper into the data around web application and API attacks, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) trends, the overarching goals of attackers, and more. This report also explored the threat landscape that has grown out of the pandemic in the gaming industry and the impact of cyberattacks on gaming companies.

This edition of the SOTI focuses on malicious activity detected and managed over the course of 2020 via DNS filtering.

Akamai’s end of year review of the key events of 2020 affecting information security. Compiles findings from other SOTI reports with additional commentary and data from the Akamai service footprint.

This edition of the State of the Internet (SOTI)/Security report series focuses on the retail and hospitality sectors. An extensive review of how credential abuse attacks are carried out from both a methodology perspective and a volumetric angle is given.

Using Akamai’s global visibility and content delivery networks, this report covers the security threats present in the gaming industry. An exploration of how gamers are a growing lucrative target for criminals, including methods, geography, and recommendations.

This report by Akamai, sought to find out how much consumers trust companies. The study found that American consumers are very forgiving with companies that have access to their personal information.

Akamai’s annual overview of security traffic trends for 2019.

This is the 6th annual SOTI from Akamai. The Key findings are: • Between November 2017 and October 2019, more than 40% of the unique DDoS targets were in the financial services industry • Traditional logins (username and password) still account for the majority (74%) of access methods to applications and services • From May to October 2019, credential stuffing attacks targeting the financial services industry have targeted APIs, often accounting for 75% or more of the total login attacks against financial services

From the report, “From January 2018 through June 2019, Akamai recorded more than 61 billion credential stuffing attempts and more than 4 billion web application attacks. In this special edition of the State of the Internet / Security Report, we’re focusing on data within the high tech, video media, and entertainment sectors — collectively named Media & Technology.”

From the report, “We wanted to do something different for this report. Instead of looking at a single type of attack, we stepped back to look at attacks against banks, credit unions, trading companies, and other organizations that make up financial services as a whole. Most defenders only see a very small segment of the overall traffic, whether they’re the target or the vendor supplying defensive tools. The breadth of Akamai’s products and our visibility into a significant portion of Internet traffic allows us to research multiple stages of the attack economy.”

This installment of State of the Internet / Security examines credential stuffing and web application attack trends over the last 17 months, with a focus on the gaming industry. One reason gaming is so lucrative is the trend of adding easily commoditized items for gamers to consume, such as cosmetic enhancements, special weapons, or other related items. Gamers are also a niche demographic known for spending money, so their financial status makes them tempting targets. We began collecting credential abuse data at the beginning of November 2017 and chose to use the same period with our application attack data to make direct comparisons between plots easier for readers.

In this report, we’re going to give you an overview of the credential stuffing attacks in 2018 against the aforementioned sectors and look at the risks these attacks pose. We’ll also explore some of the ways adversaries conduct these attacks.

Akamai provides a thorough report to educated the industry on the attacks that are growing, evolving, and becoming more sophisticated.

From the report, “All three of our stories in this issue of the State of the Internet / Security report are about things most organizations aren’t examining. Whether the cause is that organizations don’t perceive some issues as important to their environment, if they don’t have tooling to monitor these issues, or if the resources to monitor this traffic are not available, this traffic is often being overlooked.”

The report covers a variety of issues but offers these key findings, Sometimes an “attack” isn’t exactly what it first appears to be, Bots are big money for attackers and they’re constantly evolving, Mental health issues cost U.S. businesses more than $190 billion a year in lost earnings. Read on for more information.