Latest Cloudflare news

Evasive phishing mixes reverse tunnels and URL shortening services

Security researchers are seeing an uptick in the use of reverse tunnel services along with URL shorteners for large-scale phishing campaigns, making the malicious activity more difficult to stop.
- Bill Toulas
- June 05, 2022
- 11:06 AM
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Hands on with Microsoft Edge's new built-in VPN feature

Edge's Secure Network is powered by Cloudflare - one of the most trusted DNS hosts in the industry - and it aims to protect your device and sensitive data as you browse. The feature is in the early stage of development available to select users in Edge Canary and it's not a full-fledged VPN service offered in browsers like Opera.
- Mayank Parmar
- April 28, 2022
- 07:25 PM
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Windows 11 tool to add Google Play secretly installed malware

A popular Windows 11 ToolBox script used to add the Google Play Store to the Android Subsystem has secretly infected users with malicious scripts, Chrome extensions, and potentially other malware.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 14, 2022
- 03:55 PM
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Ransom DDoS attacks have dropped to record lows this year

Extortion denial-of-service activity, the so-called RDDoS (ransom distributed denial-of-service) attacks have taken a tumble in the first quarter of the year, according to recent statistics from Cloudflare.
- Bill Toulas
- April 12, 2022
- 02:51 PM
- 0
Russians bypass website blocks to access Western news sources

Cloudflare sees signs of Russians increasingly turning to Western news sources to get accurate information about the situation in Ukraine.
- Bill Toulas
- April 04, 2022
- 01:06 PM
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Okta confirms 2.5% customers impacted by hack in January

Okta, a major provider of access management systems, says that 2.5%, or approximately 375 customers, were impacted by a cyberattack claimed by the Lapsus$ data extortion group.
- Ionut Ilascu
- March 22, 2022
- 06:52 PM
- 0
Cloudflare to auto-brick servers that go offline in Ukraine, Russia

Cloudflare announced that it is taking drastic measures to protect data of customers in Eastern Europe under current conditions of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- Bill Toulas
- March 08, 2022
- 11:31 AM
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Cloudflare launches a paid public bug bounty program

Cloudflare, an American company focused on web infrastructure and website security, has announced the launch of a new public bug bounty program.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 01, 2022
- 03:56 PM
- 0
Cloudflare is experiencing widespread latency and timeouts

Cloudflare is experiencing "wide-spread" latency issues with their network and services, causing websites to load slowly and customers to experience performance issues accessing the customer dashboard.
- Lawrence Abrams
- December 16, 2021
- 03:46 PM
- 0
Critical Cloudflare CDN flaw allowed compromise of 12% of all sites

Cloudflare has fixed a critical vulnerability in its free and open-source CDNJS potentially impacting 12.7% of all websites on the internet. CDNJS serves millions of websites with over 4,000 JavaScript and CSS libraries stored publicly on GitHub, making it the second-largest JavaScript CDN.
- Ax Sharma
- July 16, 2021
- 06:29 AM
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Cloudflare Page Shield: Early warning system for malicious scripts

Cloudflare has released a new feature that aims to protect websites from Magecart and other malicious JavaScript-based attacks.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 25, 2021
- 06:26 PM
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Cloudflare can now send DDoS alerts for sites are under attack

Cloudflare now allows paid customers to create notifications that warn them when their sites are under a DDoS attack.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 06, 2020
- 05:44 PM
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CenturyLink routing issue led to outages on Hulu, Steam, Discord, more

A CenturyLink BGP routing mistake has led to a ripple effect across the Internet that led to outages for numerous Internet-connected services such as Cloudflare, Amazon, Garmin, Steam, Discord, Blizzard, and many more.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 30, 2020
- 01:05 PM
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Cloudflare outage takes down Discord, BleepingComputer, and other sites

Cloudflare is having an outage that is affecting a lot of sites including Discord, BleepingComputer, and many other sites. It is not known what is causing the outage.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 17, 2020
- 05:38 PM
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Cloudflare dashboard and APIs are down, some sites having issues

Cloudflare is experiencing outages in multiple components of its infrastructure including, the dashboard, API, and their Argo smart routing feature that are causing issues for some sites that are using them.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 15, 2020
- 01:55 PM
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Cloudflare drops Google's reCAPTCHA due to privacy concerns

Cloudflare announced that it has moved from Google's reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha, an independent alternative CAPTCHA provider focused on user privacy.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 13, 2020
- 02:45 PM
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Cloudflare Launches a DNS-Based Parental Control Service

Cloudflare introduced today '1.1.1.1 for Families,' a privacy-focused DNS resolver designed to help parents in their efforts to safeguard their children's online security and privacy by automatically filtering out bad sites.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 01, 2020
- 02:32 PM
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Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS Passes Privacy Audit, Some Issues Found

Cloudflare has released the results of a privacy audit of their a 1.1.1.1 DNS service that backs up Cloudflare's statement regarding how DNS query data is being stored and collected on their servers.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 31, 2020
- 10:16 AM
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BlackWater Malware Abuses Cloudflare Workers for C2 Communication

A new backdoor malware called BlackWater pretending to be COVID-19 information while abusing Cloudflare Workers as an interface to the malware's command and control (C2) server.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 14, 2020
- 02:30 PM
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Cloudflare Now Blocks the vBulletin RCE CVE-2019-16759 Exploit

This week a zero-day vBulletin remote code execution vulnerability and exploit was publicly disclosed and is being used by bad actors to attack vBulletin forums. Cloudflare has now created a special rule that will prevent this exploit from working on vBulletin sites behind Cloudflare's service.
- Lawrence Abrams
- September 29, 2019
- 11:11 AM
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