The largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date peaked at 5.6 terabits per second and came from a Mirai-based botnet with 13,000 compromised devices. [more]
Researchers are warning of threat actors increasingly abusing the Cloudflare Tunnel service in malware campaigns that usually deliver remote access trojans (RATs). [more]
Cloudflare, a lead provider of content delivery network (CDN) services, cloud security, and DDoS protection has warned that it has not authorized the use of its name or logo on the Polyfill.io website, which has recently been caught injecting malware on more than 100,000 websites in a... [more]
A new type of DDoS attack unfortunately makes it possible for attack groups to send record traffic in the direction of servers they want to crack. This time it went well, but the fear is a far greater attack. [more]
Although Cloudflare provides resilient DDoS protection, a researcher devised a strategy to bypass the security measures using Cloudflare itself. The process involves exploiting logic flaws in the firewall that allow an adversary to perform DDoS attacks on the target device. [more]
We must not have CAPTCHA ("Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.") [more]