Artificial Intelligence Cloudflare Lays Off 1,100 Employees in AI-Driven Restructuring The company topped revenue and earnings forecasts for the first quarter of 2026, but its shares plunged more than 20%. Eduard KovacsMay 11, 2026
Incident Response Cloudflare Outage Caused by React2Shell Mitigations The critical React vulnerability has been exploited in the wild by Chinese and other threat actors. Eduard KovacsDecember 5, 2025
Cybercrime Aisuru Botnet Powers Record DDoS Attack Peaking at 29 Tbps Cloudflare recently mitigated a new record-breaking Aisuru attack that peaked at 14.1 Bpps. Eduard KovacsDecember 5, 2025
Incident Response Cloudflare Outage Not Caused by Cyberattack Major online services such as ChatGPT, X, and Shopify were disrupted in a global Cloudflare outage on Nov. 18th, as well as transit and... Eduard KovacsNovember 18, 2025
Network Security Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaks at 22 Tbps and 10 Bpps The attack was aimed at a European network infrastructure company and it has been linked to the Aisuru botnet. Eduard KovacsSeptember 24, 2025
Cybercrime RaccoonO365 Phishing Service Disrupted, Leader Identified Microsoft and Cloudflare have teamed up to take down the infrastructure used by RaccoonO365. Eduard KovacsSeptember 17, 2025
Vulnerabilities New HTTP Request Smuggling Attacks Impacted CDNs, Major Orgs, Millions of Websites A desync attack method leveraging HTTP/1.1 vulnerabilities impacted many websites and earned researchers more than $200,000 in bug bounties. Eduard KovacsAugust 7, 2025
Incident Response DDoS Attacks Blocked by Cloudflare in 2025 Already Surpass 2024 Total Cloudflare has published its quarterly DDoS threat report for Q2 2025 and the company says it has blocked millions of attacks. Eduard KovacsJuly 15, 2025
Network Security Record-Breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS Attack Targets Hosting Provider Cloudflare has blocked yet another record-breaking DDoS attack, which delivered the equivalent of 9,000 HD movies in just 45 seconds. Eduard KovacsJune 20, 2025
Malware & Threats Cloudflare Tunnels Abused in New Malware Campaign A threat actor is abusing Cloudflare Tunnels for the delivery of a Python loader as part of a complex infection chain. Ionut ArghireJune 20, 2025
Cybercrime Surge in Cyberattacks Targeting Journalists: Cloudflare Between May 2024 and April 2025, Cloudflare blocked 109 billion malicious requests targeting organizations protected under Project Galileo. Ionut ArghireJune 12, 2025
Malware & Threats ClickFix Attack Exploits Fake Cloudflare Turnstile to Deliver Malware Researchers have discovered and analyzed a ClickFix attack that uses a fake Cloudflare ‘humanness’ check. Kevin TownsendJune 5, 2025
Threat Intelligence New Cloudflare Service Provides Real-Time Threat Intelligence Cloudflare launches Cloudforce Threat Events Feed, a service designed to provide security teams with real-time threat intelligence. Eduard KovacsMarch 18, 2025
Network Security Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Reached 5.6 Tbps Cloudflare saw a 53% increase in DDoS attack frequency last year, when it blocked a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps attack. Ionut ArghireJanuary 22, 2025
Network Security Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaked at 3.8 Tbps, 2.14 Billion Pps Cloudflare recently mitigated another record-breaking DDoS attack, peaking at 3.8 Tbps and 2.14 billion Pps. Eduard KovacsOctober 2, 2024
Cloud Security Cloudflare Expands Zero Trust Capabilities with Acquisition of BastionZero Cloudlfare acquires Boston seed-stage startup BastionZero to bolster its Zero Trust Network Access technology portfolio. Ryan NaraineMay 30, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Cloudflare Introduces AI Security Solutions Cloudflare introduces security products that use AI, protect AI, and defend against AI-enhanced phishing. Ionut ArghireMarch 5, 2024
Nation-State Cloudflare Hacked by Suspected State-Sponsored Threat Actor A nation-state threat actor accessed internal Cloudflare systems using credentials stolen during the Okta hack. Ionut ArghireFebruary 2, 2024
CISO Strategy Okta Hack Blamed on Employee Using Personal Google Account on Company Laptop Okta is blaming the recent hack of its support system on an employee who logged into a personal Google account on a company-managed laptop. Ryan NaraineNovember 3, 2023
Malware & Threats Threat Actors Abuse Cloudflare Tunnel for Persistent Access, Data Theft Threat actors have been observed abusing the open source Cloudflare Tunnel tool Cloudflared to maintain stealthy, persistent access to compromised systems. Ionut ArghireAugust 4, 2023