Cloudflare website downed by DDoS attack claimed by Anonymous Sudan
Cloudflare is investigating an ongoing outage causing 'We're sorry
Introducing HAR Sanitizer: secure HAR sharing
As a follow-up to the most recent Okta breach, we are making a HAR file sanitizer available to everyone, not just Cloudflare customers, at no cost.
How Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise
On Wednesday, October 18, 2023, we discovered attacks on our system that we were able to trace back to Okta. We have verified that no Cloudflare customer information or systems were impacted by this event because of our rapid response.
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: deconstructing the record-breaking attack
This post dives into the details of the HTTP/2 protocol, the feature that attackers exploited to generate the massive Rapid Reset attacks, and the mitigation strategies we took to ensure all our customers are protected
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q2
Q2 2023 saw an unprecedented escalation in DDoS attack sophistication. Pro-Russian hacktivists REvil, Killnet and Anonymous Sudan joined forces to attack Western sites. Mitel vulnerability exploits surged by a whopping 532%, and attacks on crypto rocketed up by 600%. Read the full story...
It’s Raining Phish and Scams – How Cloudflare Pages.dev and Workers.dev Domains Get Abused | Trustwave
As they say, when it rains, it pours. Recently, we observed more than 3,000 phishing emails containing phishing URLs abusing services at workers.dev and pages.dev domains.
Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack
This was a weekend of record-breaking DDoS DDoS. Over the weekend, Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (rps) with the largest exceeding 71 million rps. This is the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record, more than 35% higher than the previous reported record of 46M rps in June 2022.
Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack
This was a weekend of record-breaking DDoS DDoS. Over the weekend, Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (rps) with the largest exceeding 71 million rps. This is the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record, more than 35% higher than the previous reported record of 46M rps in June 2022.