Announcing Friendly Bots
March 16, 2022 12:58 PM
Our customers can choose to allowlist any bot that is verified. Unfortunately, new bots are popping up faster than we can verify them. So today we’re announcing a solution: Friendly Bots...
The Grinch Bot is Stealing Christmas!
December 03, 2021 6:59 PM
Bots moved quickly this holiday season, launching over 1 trillion requests on Black Friday but quickly receding after the weekend....
Multi-User IP Address Detection
October 15, 2021 1:01 PM
We’ve devised novel methods to detect multi-user IP addresses, and today we’re excited to announce their integration into our global threat intelligence products. These will improve the quality of our detection techniques and reduce false positives for our customers, and the clients that visit them....
Introducing Super Bot Fight Mode
March 26, 2021 1:01 PM
Beginning immediately, any Cloudflare user with a Pro or Business site can take new action against bots. We’ve added advanced features in the dashboard and some exciting updates to analytics. ...
Mitigating Bot Attacks against Cloudflare
March 26, 2021 1:00 PM
The word “bots” on the Internet is a fairly loaded one. My earliest ‘bot’ experience was on IRC, where bots were quite helpful in making sure your favorite channel didn’t get taken over by malicious users and allowed for fun games of trivia....
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March 12, 2021 3:48 PM
Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Cloudflare’s Anomaly Detection Platform
Anomaly Detection uses an algorithm called Histogram-Based Outlier Scoring (HBOS) to detect anomalous traffic in a scalable way. While HBOS is less precise than algorithms like kNN when it comes to local outliers, it is able to score global outliers quickly (in linear time)....
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December 09, 2020 12:00 PM
Deprecating the __cfduid cookie
Cloudflare is deprecating the __cfduid cookie. While we have never tracked end-users across sites or sell their personal data, we don’t want any customer to think they need a cookie banner because of what we do....
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October 29, 2020 12:00 PM
Introducing Bot Analytics
Nearly 40% of Internet traffic is automated. Today, Cloudflare is taking its Bot Management product to new heights with the release of Bot Analytics....
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October 20, 2020 11:00 AM
Bot Attack trends for Jan-Jul 2020
Automated traffic makes up almost 40% of total Internet traffic. Let’s take a look at how bots behaved over 2020 so far....
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October 19, 2020 11:00 AM
How a Customer's Trust in Cloudflare Led to a Big Win against Bots
Monday Mornings with Customer Success: A monthly series brought to you by our Customer Success Team. This month's post is all about how a customer trusted Cloudflare to help them fight bots and improve their customer experience....
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September 16, 2020 11:00 AM
Moobot vs. Gatebot: Cloudflare Automatically Blocks Botnet DDoS Attack Topping At 654 Gbps
On July 3, Cloudflare’s global DDoS protection system, Gatebot, automatically detected and mitigated a UDP-based DDoS attack that peaked at 654 Gbps. The attack was part of a ten-day multi-vector DDoS campaign targeting a Magic Transit customer and was mitigated without any human...
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May 06, 2020 11:00 AM
Cloudflare Bot Management: machine learning and more
This is the ongoing story of Bot Management at Cloudflare and also an introduction to a series of blog posts about the detection mechanisms powering it...
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September 23, 2019 1:00 PM
Cleaning up bad bots (and the climate)
From the very beginning Cloudflare has been stopping bots from scraping websites, or misusing APIs. Over time we’ve improved our bot detection methods and deployed large machine learning models that are able to distinguish real traffic (be it from humans or apps) from misbehaving...
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December 22, 2017 2:17 PM
Technical reading from the Cloudflare blog for the holidays
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....
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December 14, 2017 7:41 PM
Inside the infamous Mirai IoT Botnet: A Retrospective Analysis
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....
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August 28, 2017 2:00 PM
The WireX Botnet: How Industry Collaboration Disrupted a DDoS Attack
On August 17th, 2017, multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and content providers were subject to significant attacks from a botnet dubbed WireX. ...
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