Security News > 2025 > February > Cloudflare outage caused by botched blocking of phishing URL
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2025-02-07 15:44
An attempt to block a phishing URL in Cloudflare's R2 object storage platform backfired yesterday, triggering a widespread outage that brought down multiple services for nearly an hour. [...]