Malware - The Cloudflare Blog

How sophisticated scammers and phishers are preying on customers of Silicon Valley Bank

March 14, 2023 11:11PM

In order to breach trust and trick unsuspecting victims, threat actors overwhelmingly use topical events as lures. The news about what happened at Silicon Valley Bank is the latest event to watch out for and stay vigilant against opportunistic phishing campaigns using SVB as the lure...

How Cloudflare can help stop malware before it reaches your app

January 04, 2023 2:00PM

WAF Security Malware

Today, we’re making the job of application security teams easier, by providing a content scanning engine integrated with our Web Application Firewall (WAF), so that malicious files being uploaded by end users, never reach origin servers in the first place...

Michael Tremante

Democratizing email security: protecting individuals and businesses of all sizes from phishing and malware attacks

March 14, 2022 12:59PM

Security Week Email Security Zero Trust Phishing

Once the acquisition of Area 1 closes, we plan to give all paid self-serve plans access to their email security technology at no additional charge...

Monsters in the Middleboxes: Introducing Two New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception

March 18, 2019 5:47PM

HTTPS Malware Security Speed & Reliability Research

The practice of HTTPS interception continues to be commonplace on the Internet. This blog post discusses types of monster-in-the-middle devices and software, and how to detect them....

Website Security Myths

September 08, 2018 4:00PM

Security Attacks Malware

Some conversations are easy; some are difficult. Some are harmonious and some are laborious. But when it comes to website security, the conversation is confusing. Every organisation agrees, in theory, that their websites need to be secure....

Naveen Singh

February 14, 2013 1:29AM

When the Attackers Name Malware After You, You Know You're Doing Something Right

CloudFlare's I'm Under Attack Mode (IUAM) is elegantly simple. When a site is under an application layer (Layer 7) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the mode will return a challenge page to a visitor....

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Matthew Prince

I'm Under Attack Mode , Malware , Reliability , Our History

July 13, 2012 10:47PM

Thoughts on Abuse

One of the behind the scenes topics we think about a lot at CloudFlare is how to handle abuse of our network. I realized that we hadn't exposed our thoughts on this clearly enough. In the next few days, we'll be making some minor updates to our Terms of Service....

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Matthew Prince

Malware , Abuse

May 03, 2012 2:00PM

CloudFlare & OpenDNS Work Together to Help the Web

Several years ago, some suspected cyber criminals on the Internet wrote a family of malware dubbed DNSChanger. About a year ago, law enforcement tracked down the suspected cyber criminals behind this malware....

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Matthew Prince

Save The Web , Malware , OpenDNS , Legal

July 20, 2011 7:12PM

Breaking the Cycle of Malware

Google did something terrific yesterday. They began notifying users with a certain kind of malware running on their PCs that they had a problem and linked them to tools to help clean it up. While it is currently limited, we think this is an important step by Google....

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Matthew Prince

Malware , Google , Challenge Page , Attacks

June 28, 2011 4:38AM

App #15 - GlobalSign HackAlert Malware Detection

Your website security comes in many layers, against many threats. But how do you know if your site has a problem? Once you know, how do you solve the problem, to protect your customers and your reputation?...

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John Roberts

Malware , Cloudflare Apps , Monitoring

June 16, 2011 4:05AM

App a Day #12 - StopTheHacker Malware Scanning

This CloudFlare App, StopTheHacker, is an easy way to protect your website from malware attacks and protect your online reputation. Beyond the time lost recuperating from a compromised site, you risk your search engine ranking and blocked access in browsers....

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John Roberts

Malware , Cloudflare Apps , StopTheHacker