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Cloudflare blames recent outage on BGP hijacking incident
2024-07-05 18:41

Internet giant Cloudflare reports that its DNS resolver service, 1.1.1.1, was recently unreachable or degraded for some of its customers because of a combination of Border Gateway Protocol hijacking and a route leak. The incident occurred last week and affected 300 networks in 70 countries.

Cloudflare: We never authorized polyfill.io to use our name
2024-06-27 09:18

Further, to keep the internet safe, Cloudflare is automatically replacing polyfill.io links with a safe mirror on websites that use Cloudflare protection. Cloudflare has criticized Polyfill.io's unauthorized usage of its name and logo as it could mislead users into believing that the illicit website is endorsed by Cloudflare.

New Tricks in the Phishing Playbook: Cloudflare Workers, HTML Smuggling, GenAI
2024-05-27 09:02

Cybersecurity researchers are alerting of phishing campaigns that abuse Cloudflare Workers to serve phishing sites that are used to harvest users' credentials associated with Microsoft, Gmail,...

New Latrodectus malware attacks use Microsoft, Cloudflare themes
2024-04-30 22:08

Latrodectus malware is now being distributed in phishing campaigns using Microsoft Azure and Cloudflare lures to appear legitimate while making it harder for email security platforms to detect the emails as malicious. Latrodectus is an increasingly distributed Windows malware downloader first discovered by Walmart's security team and later analyzed by ProofPoint and Team Cymru that acts as a backdoor, downloading additional EXE and DLL payloads or executing commands.

Cloudflare wants to put a firewall in front of your LLM
2024-03-05 01:32

Doing so helps to prevent distributed denial of service attacks against the model, or other situations that would overwhelm the LLM with requests and disrupt its ability to process legitimate requests. The firewall can be deployed in front of any LLM, Molteni told The Register.

Midnight Blizzard and Cloudflare-Atlassian Cybersecurity Incidents: What to Know
2024-02-13 11:10

The Midnight Blizzard and Cloudflare-Atlassian cybersecurity incidents raised alarms about the vulnerabilities inherent in major SaaS platforms. These incidents illustrate the stakes involved in...

Cloudflare Breach: Nation-State Hackers Access Source Code and Internal Docs
2024-02-02 06:21

Cloudflare has revealed that it was the target of a likely nation-state attack in which the threat actor leveraged stolen credentials to gain unauthorized access to its Atlassian server and...

Cloudflare sheds more light on Thanksgiving security breach in which tokens, source code accessed by suspected spies
2024-02-02 01:12

Cloudflare has just detailed how suspected government spies gained access to its internal Atlassian installation using credentials stolen via a security breach at Okta in October. The October Okta security breach involved more than 130 customers of that IT access management biz, in which snoops swiped data from Okta in hope of drilling further into those organizations.

Cloudflare hacked using auth tokens stolen in Okta attack
2024-02-01 20:53

Cloudflare disclosed today that its internal Atlassian server was breached by a 'nation state' attacker who accessed its Confluence wiki, Jira bug database, and Atlassian Bitbucket source code management system."They then returned on November 22 and established persistent access to our Atlassian server using ScriptRunner for Jira, gained access to our source code management system, and tried, unsuccessfully, to access a console server that had access to the data center that Cloudflare had not yet put into production in São Paulo, Brazil," Cloudflare said.

Cloudflare website downed by DDoS attack claimed by Anonymous Sudan
2023-11-09 21:25

Update November 09, 17:19 EST: A threat group known as Anonymous Sudan claimed that they were the ones who took down Cloudflare's website in a distributed denial-of-service attack. Cloudflare confirmed that the outage resulted from a DDoS attack that only affected the www.