Bots

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....

By 
• Avi Jaisinghani
• , Adam Martinetti
• , Brian Mitchell

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 ...

By 
• Adam Martinetti
• , Harsh Saxena
• , Gauri Baraskar
• , Carlos Azevedo
• , David Belson

September 23, 2024 1:00 PM

As the Internet evolves, Turnstile does too. Introducing Ephemeral IDs — a new dimension in detecting fraudulent activity, bot or human, that links behavior to a specific client instead of an IP address. This makes Turnstile better for everyone, everywhere. ...

By 
• Oliver Payne
• , Sally Lee
• , Benedikt Wolters

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...

By 
• Alex Bocharov
• , Santiago Vargas
• , Adam Martinetti
• , Reid Tatoris
• , Carlos Azevedo

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...

By 
• Bob AminAzad
• , Santiago Vargas
• , Adam Martinetti

May 15, 2024 1:00 PM

Zaraz Consent Management now supports Google Consent Mode v2 and is compliant with the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework. Zaraz also added Bot Management support for keeping your analytics data clean...

By 
• Yo'av Moshe

March 07, 2024 2:00 PM

Learn how to use Cloudflare Pages and Turnstile to deploy your website quickly and easily while protecting it from bots, without compromising user experience. Follow our tutorial here for a seamless integration...

By 
• Sally Lee

December 18, 2023 2:00 PM

By editing or creating a new Turnstile widget with “Pre-Clearance” enabled, Cloudflare customers can now use Turnstile to issue a challenge when a page’s HTML loads, and enforce that all valid responses have a valid Turnstile token...

By 
• Adam Martinetti
• , Benedikt Wolters
• , Miguel de Moura

September 29, 2023 1:00 PM

Now that we’ve eliminated CAPTCHAs at Cloudflare, we want to hasten the demise of CAPTCHAs across the internet. We’re thrilled to announce that Turnstile is generally available, and Turnstile’s ‘Managed’ mode is now completely free to everyone for unlimited use. ...

By 
• Benedikt Wolters
• , Maxime Guerreiro
• , Adam Martinetti

August 21, 2023 2:15 PM

We are back with a quarterly update of our Application Security report. Read on to learn about new attack trends and insights visible from Cloudflare’s global network...

By 
• Michael Tremante
• , David Belson
• , Sabina Zejnilovic

June 19, 2023 1:00 PM

How we optimized bot management’s machine learning model execution...

By 
• Austin Hartzheim

March 16, 2023 1:00 PM

Super Bot Fight Mode can be used with Skip rules now to allow for configurable deployments...

By 
• Adam Martinetti

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....

By 
• David McClure
• , Adam Martinetti

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...

By 
• Adam Martinetti

December 14, 2022 2:00 PM

Cloudflare’s Bot Fight Mode caught 6x more bots in 2022, and we’re contributing to a new tree planting project in West Bengal....

By 
• Adam Martinetti
• , Patrick Day