On Wednesday, Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM)’s shares declined -16.73% to $62.91.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM) offered 18.00% EPS for prior five years. The company has 8.30% return on equity value while its ROI ratio was 9.70%. The company has $13.49 billion market capitalizations and the institutional ownership was 89.10%. Its price to book ratio was 3.69. Volatility of the stock was 3.00% for the week while for the month booked as 2.20%.
Akamai Technologies, published a new cybersecurity threat advisory. Akamai has observed three new reflection distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in recent months. The advisory details the DDoS threat posed by NetBIOS name server reflection, RPC portmap reflection, and Sentinel reflection in full, counting payload analysis, a Snort rule, and system hardening best practices.
What is DDoS reflection?
In a reflection DDoS attack, also called a DrDoS attack, there are three types of participants: the attacker, victim servers that act as unwitting accomplices, and the attacker’s target. The attacker sends a simple query to a service on a victim host. The attacker falsifies (spoofs) the query, so it appears to originate from the target. The victim responds to the spoofed address, sending unwanted network traffic to the attacker’s target. Attackers choose reflection DDoS attacks where the victim’s response is much larger than the attacker’s query, thus amplifying the attacker’s capabilities. The attacker sends hundreds or thousands of queries at high rates to a large list of victims by automated the process with an attack tool, thus causing them to unleash a flood of unwanted traffic and a denial of service outage at the target.
“Although reflection DDoS attacks are common, these three attack vectors abuse different services than we’ve seen before, and as such they demonstrate that attackers are probing the Internet relentlessly to discover new resources to leverage,” said Stuart Scholly, senior vice president and general manager, Security Business Unit, Akamai. “It looks like no UDP service is safe from abuse by DDoS attackers, so server admins need to shut down unnecessary services or protect them from malicious reflection. The sheer volume of UDP services open to the Internet for reflection DDoS attacks is staggering.”
The attack tools for each of the new reflection attacks are related – they are all modifications of the same C code. Each attack vector requires the same basic recipe – a script that sends a spoofed request to a list of victim reflectors. The command-line options are similar.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications. Its solutions comprise delivery of conventional content on Websites, tools that support the delivery and operation of cloud-based applications, in addition to security solutions, and live and on-demand streaming video capabilities.
Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC)’s shares gained 0.04% to $28.56.
Exelon Corporation (EXC) has beta value of 0.30. The company has the market capitalization of $24.60 billion. Return on assets ratio of the company was 2.70% while its return on equity ratio was 10.10%. ATR value of company was 0.78 while stock volatility for week was 2.81% while for month was 2.36%. Debt to equity ratio of the company was -1.13 and its current ratio was 2.40.
Exelon Corporation (Exelon) is a utility services holding company. The Company operates through nine segments compriseing of Exelon Generation Company, LLC’s (Generation) six marketing segments, Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), PECO Energy Company (PECO) and Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE). Generation’s business comprises of the generation, physical delivery and marketing of power across geographical regions. ComEd’s business comprises of the purchase and regulated retail sale of electricity and the provision of electricity transmission and distribution services to retail customers.
At the end of Wednesday’s trade, Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS)‘s shares surged 4.24% to $33.44.
Morgan Stanley (MS) has market value of $62.96 billion while its EPS was booked as $1.61 in the last 12 months. The stock has 1.95 billion shares outstanding while 58.80% shares of the company were owned by institutional investors. In the profitability analysis, the company has gross profit margin of 86.90% while net profit margin was 10.80%. Beta value of the company was 2.38; beta is used to measure riskiness of the security.
Morgan Stanley is a financial holding company. Through its auxiliaries and associates, the Company provides a variety of products and financial services to a group of clients and customers, counting corporations, governments, financial institutions and individuals.