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The commerce industry recorded more than 25 billion bot requests over a two-month observation period in 2025.
11/9/2025•
E-commerceAI Bots
AI bot traffic surged by 300% from 2024 to 2025, significantly impacting digital operations and analytics.
11/9/2025•
AI BotsDigital Traffic
The publishing industry experienced 63% of AI bot triggers within the broader digital media industry in 2025.
11/9/2025•
Digital MediaAI Bots
In healthcare, over 90% of AI bot triggers are attributed to scraping activities as of 2025.
11/9/2025•
HealthcareAI Bots
AI bots now compose nearly 1% of total bot traffic across Akamai's platform as of 2025.
11/9/2025•
AI BotsDigital Traffic
Nearly half the cryptomining attacks analysed by Akamai researchers targeted nonprofit and educational organizations.
7/29/2025•
RansomwareCryptomining Nonprofit
The Dragon RaaS emerged in 2024.
7/29/2025•
RansomwareRaaSDragon RaaS
Double extortion remains the most common approach.
7/29/2025•
RansomwareExtortionDouble extortion
A new quadruple extortion tactic is being used in ransomware campaigns, which builds on double extortion by using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to disrupt business operations and harassing third parties (like customers, partners, and media) to increase the pressure on the victim.
7/29/2025•
RansomwareExtortionQuadruple extortion
The TrickBot malware family has extorted more than US$724 million in cryptocurrency from victims since 2016.
7/29/2025•
RansomwareTrickBot
In 2024, the financial services sector was the top target of volumetric DDoS attacks.
6/10/2025•
Financial DDoS
There was a major spike in volumetric DDoS attacks targeting the financial sector in October 2024.
6/10/2025•
Financial DDoS
Application-layer DDoS attacks against the financial sector increased 23% between 2023 and 2024.
6/10/2025•
Financial DDoS
The Asia-Pacific region accounted for 38% of all volumetric DDoS attacks in the financial sector, up from 11% in 2023.
6/10/2025•
Financial DDoSAsia Pacific
Quarterly Layer 7 (application-layer) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack volumes increased 94% year-over-year between Q1 2023 and Q4 2024.
4/22/2025•
DDoS
OWASP API Security Top 10–related incidents increased by 32%, revealing authentication and authorization flaws.
4/22/2025•
API
Growth in security alerts related to the MITRE security framework are up 30%
4/22/2025•
MITRE ATT&CKAlerts
There were 7 trillion Layer 7 DDoS attacks targeting the high technology sector from January 2023 through December 2024, making it the most affected industry for this type of attack.
4/22/2025•
DDoSTechnology
There were 311 billion web attacks in 2024. This represents a 33% year-over-year increase in web attacks.
4/22/2025•
Web attacks
Akamai documented 150 billion API attacks from January 2023 through December 2024.
4/22/2025•
APIAPI attack
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