Two separate Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a critical flaw in a somewhat unlikely target. The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team recently observed exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a ...

A critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting Wazuh servers has been exploited by Mirai botnets, Akamai warned on Monday. Wazuh is a free and open source security platform designed for ...

In 2025, botnet-driven traffic attacks stopped being an occasional crisis and became a constant condition of the internet. Security teams did not face one or two headline-grabbing DDoS events. Instead ...

A 22-year-old Washington man was sentenced to 13 months in prison for renting and developing Mirai and Qbot-based DDoS botnets used in DDoS attacks against targets from all over the world.

⏪ AI is changing financial services fast. Unfortunately, attackers are evolving just as quickly ⏩ Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report highlights how AI-powered botnets, API visibility gaps, ...