2025-08-28
Cloudflare now lets websites and bot creators use Web Bot Auth to segment agents from verified bots, making it easier for customers to allow or disallow the many types of user and partner directed....
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2025-08-28
Cloudflare launches AI Crawl Control (formerly AI Audit) and introduces easily customizable 402 HTTP responses....
2025-08-04
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites....
2025-07-01
Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content. ...
2025-07-01
Bots can start authenticating to Cloudflare using public key cryptography, preventing them from being spoofed and allowing origins to have confidence in their identity....
May 15, 2025 1:00 PM
Bots now browse like humans. We're proposing bots use cryptographic signatures so that website owners can verify their identity. Explanations and demonstration code can be found within the post....
March 20, 2025 1:00 PM
We’re introducing a new Application Security experience in the Cloudflare dashboard, with a reworked UI organized by use cases, making it easier for customers to navigate and secure their accounts....
March 19, 2025 1:00 PM
By building and integrating a new heuristics framework into the Cloudflare Ruleset Engine, we now have a more flexible system to write rules and deploy new releases rapidly....
March 19, 2025 1:00 PM
How Cloudflare uses generative AI to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives....
December 23, 2024 2:01 PM
Cloudflare observed a 4x increase in bot-related traffic on Black Friday in 2024. 29% of all traffic on our network on Black Friday was Grinch Bots wreaking holiday havoc....
September 27, 2024 1:00 PM
This year for Cloudflare’s birthday, we’ve extended our AI Assistant capabilities to help you build new WAF rules, added new AI bot & crawler traffic insights to Radar, and given customers new AI bot ...
August 12, 2024 2:00 PM
Explore how Cloudflare's JA4 fingerprinting and inter-request signals provide robust and scalable insights for advanced web security and threat detection. ...
July 11, 2024 5:00 PM
Cloudflare’s updated 2024 view on Internet cyber security trends spanning global traffic insights, bot traffic insights, API traffic insights, and client-side risks...
July 03, 2024 1:00 PM
To help preserve a safe Internet for content creators, we’ve just launched a brand new “easy button” to block all AI bots. It’s available for all customers, including those on our free tier...
June 24, 2024 1:00 PM
Cloudflare's Bot Management team has released a new Machine Learning model for bot detection (v8), focusing on bots and abuse from residential proxies...
February 16, 2024 2:00 PM
We recently shared an introduction to Cloudflare’s approach to MLOps, which provides a holistic overview of model training and deployment processes at Cloudflare. In this post, we will dig deeper into monitoring, and how we continuously evaluate the models that power Bot Manageme...
June 19, 2023 1:00 PM
We'll describe the technical strategies that have enabled us to expand the number of machine learning features and models, all while substantially reducing the processing time for each HTTP request on our network...
June 19, 2023 1:00 PM
How we optimized bot management’s machine learning model execution...
March 16, 2023 1:00 PM
IBM and Cloudflare continue to partner together to help customers meet the unique security, performance, resiliency and compliance needs of their customers through the addition of exciting new product and service offerings....
March 15, 2023 1:05 PM
Cloudflare Fraud Detection uses machine learning models to better protect businesses from fake account signups, account takeover attacks, and carding attacks to ensure businesses can operate online safely...
