This report reflects on the key threats that emerged or expanded in the 4th quarter of 2020.

An analysis on the indicators to be derived from detecting Internet of Things (IoT) in organization’s public internet facing profiles.

A review of the threat volume and characteristics affecting e-commerce.

This annual report looks at changes in internet of things security.

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. (more available)

This article offers a glimpse into the inner workings of the Interplanetary Storm botnet, provides an exhaustive technical analysis of the Golang-written binaries along with an overview of the protocol internals and finally, some attribution information. (more available)

This report provides recommendations on how companies can manage the threat posed by shadow IoT devices.

This report from Cloudflare shows trends and shifts in DDoS attacks for the 2nd quarter of 2020.

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. (more available)

This quarterly threat report offers insight into the DDoS attacks that occurred in the 2nd quarter of 2019.

This quarterly threat report offers insight into the DDoS attacks that occurred in the 1st quarter of 2019.

This report takes a look at the DDoS threats that occurred in the third quarter of 2019.

Akamai examines the attack trends in the media sector over a 24-month period. This research is based on data gathered during regular Akamai operations and is based on a large volume of real events. (more available)

A detailed technical analysis of the Kingminer botnet malware, including the C&C network, infection vectors, payload, and auxiliary components.

The inaugural threat report from the AWS Shield managed security service. Primarily covers volumetric statistics seen on the AWS Shield platform. (more available)

This report goes in depth on Radware’s performance in mitigating DDoS attacks.

This is a report put out by Impervia based on their 2019 DDoS attack study. Their analysis of attacks is based on data from 3,643 network layer DDoS attacks on websites using Imperva services from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019, and on 42,390 application layer attacks on websites using Imperva services from May 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019,

The 2020 Internet of Evil Things survey results are in. This year we’ve polled over 200 cyber security professionals at the RSA conference in San Francisco, USA on their experience of managing wireless security, including their awareness and preparedness of wireless cyberattacks on their organization. (more available)

The recent Chinese New Year ushered in the Year of the Rat, but from the perspective of the many corporations, government agencies and other organizations around the world who continue to be the targets of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups acting in the interest of the Chinese government, recent years could aptly be described as the Decade of the RATs - Remote Access Trojans, that is. (more available)

The 2020 Trustwave Global Security Report is an annual review of the phenomena, trends and statistics affecting computer security and worldwide safety, as observed by Trustwave systems and security analysts throughout 2019. (more available)

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