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February 27, 2018 2:38PM
Ces derniers jours, nous avons constaté une forte augmentation d'un dangereux vecteur d'attaque par amplification utilisant le protocole memcached, provenant du port UDP 11211....
February 27, 2018 2:38PM
In den letzten Tagen haben wir einen großen Anstieg von Amplification-Angriffen (Verstärkungsangriffen) mit einem obskuren Angriffsvektor festgestellt, die unter Nutzung des Memcached-Protokolls von UDP-Port 11211 kamen....
December 24, 2017 4:57PM
As I’m writing this, four DDoS attacks are ongoing and being automatically mitigated by Gatebot. Cloudflare’s job is to get attacked. Our network gets attacked constantly....
December 22, 2017 2:17PM
During 2017 Cloudflare published 172 blog posts (including this one). If you need a distraction from the holiday festivities at this time of year here are some highlights from the year....
December 21, 2017 2:01PM
At the end of 2016, I wrote a blog post with seven predictions for 2017. Let’s start by reviewing how I did. I’ll score myself with two points for being correct, one point for mostly right and zero for wrong. That’ll give me a maximum possible score of fourteen. Here goes......
December 14, 2017 7:41PM
This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices....
December 07, 2017 8:44PM
Cloudflare has been recognized as a leader in the “Forrester WaveTM: DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q4 2017.”...
November 23, 2017 3:28AM
News outlets and blogs will frequently compare DDoS attacks by the volume of traffic that a victim receives. Surely this makes some sense, right? The greater the volume of traffic a victim receives, the harder to mitigate an attack - right?...
October 01, 2017 10:00AM
October is European Cybersecurity Month, an annual advocacy campaign to raise awareness of cyber risks among citizens and businesses, and to share best practices in cybersecurity....
September 26, 2017 1:00PM
Cloudflare’s customers recognize that they need to protect the confidentiality and integrity of communications with their web visitors....
September 25, 2017 1:00PM
When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach....
September 25, 2017 1:00PM
In the past, we’ve spoken about how Cloudflare is architected to sustain the largest DDoS attacks. During traffic surges we spread the traffic across a very large number of edge servers....
September 25, 2017 1:00PM
This is the week of Cloudflare's seventh birthday. It's become a tradition for us to announce a series of products each day of this week and bring major new benefits to our customers. We're beginning with one I'm especially proud of: Unmetered Mitigation....
August 28, 2017 2:00PM
On August 17th, 2017, multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and content providers were subject to significant attacks from a botnet dubbed WireX....
August 16, 2017 10:29PM
Earlier today, Cloudflare terminated the account of the Daily Stormer. We've stopped proxying their traffic and stopped answering DNS requests for their sites. We've taken measures to ensure that they cannot sign up for Cloudflare's services ever again....
