Neowin News Feed for: Cloudflare

AI agents can now provision Cloudflare on behalf of their users

David Uzondu — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:30:02 +0000

Cloudflare has been going all in on AI lately, partnering with Stripe so coding agents can start paid subscriptions, register domains, grab API tokens, and deploy code. Read more...

Italy hits Cloudflare with €14 million fine over Piracy Shield non-compliance

Paul Hill — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:38:01 +0000

The Italian Communications Authority has issued a landmark €14 million fine to Cloudflare for failing to block illegal content via its "Piracy Shield." Read more...

Outage: Cloudflare is down again, multiple websites and apps like Fortnite inaccessible

Sayan Sen — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:22:01 +0000

Cloudflare has confirmed that certain services have gone down as they has been hit by an outage. The company is investigating and has released some preliminary details. Read more...

Cloudflare joins growing list of companies hit by Salesloft AI breach

David Uzondu — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:44:01 +0000

A growing number of companies are disclosing they were caught up in the recent Salesloft Drift data breach, with Cloudflare the latest to confirm and outline what data was accessed. Read more...

Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control exits beta with support for customizable 402 responses

David Uzondu — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:42:01 +0000

With AI bots increasingly scraping sites for training data, Cloudflare is upgrading its blocking tool so site owners can stop them and return custom responses. Read more...

Perplexity's stealth crawlers exposed in new Cloudflare report

Paul Hill — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:12:01 +0000

Cloudflare has outed Perplexity for using web crawlers that don't respect common rules and protocols, accusing it of using stealth crawlers. Read more...

Cloudflare has a plan to make AI agents pay for crawling websites

Usama Jawad — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:46:01 +0000

Cloudflare is currently testing a solution that paywalls content specifically for AI web crawlers. The company has resurrected HTTP response code 402 for this purpose. Read more...

Cloudflare fends off record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack with autonomous systems

Paul Hill — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:10:01 +0000

Cloudflare announces that its DDoS protection thwarted a record 3.8 Tbps attack autonomously, showcasing its capability to handle massive threats without intervention. Read more...

A major internet hosting company has made it easier for customers to block AI training bots

John Callaham — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 16:02:01 +0000

Cloudflare, one of the major internet web site hosting companies, has announced all of its customers, including their free users, can quickly block AI training bots on their sites. Read more...

Cloudflare announces invisible alternative to CAPTCHAs

Paul Hill — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 17:32:01 +0000

Cloudflare has announced the open beta of Turnstile, an invisible alternative to CAPTCHAs. It uses browser telemetry to determine if a website visitor is legitimate, rather than annoying puzzles. Read more...

Cloudflare reveals Zero Trust SIM to protect phones and IoT devices seamlessly

Paul Hill — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 18:38:02 +0000

Cloudflare has announced that it's working on a new service called Zero Trust SIM. With it, companies can use an eSIM solution to help mitigate attacks against employees' phones and IoT devices. Read more...

Google Cloud blocks largest DDoS attack ever, beating Cloudflare's previous record with ease

Usama Jawad — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 06:06:01 +0000

Google has announced that it now wears the crown for blocking the largest DDoS attack ever. Its DDoS attack peaked at 46 million requests per second which is 76% higher than Cloudflare's best. Read more...

How to improve privacy in Microsoft Edge by enabling Encrypted Client Hello

Taras Buria — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 10:58:01 +0000

Microsoft Edge 105 (and newer) support Encrypted Client Hello, a mechanism that enhances privacy by encrypting metadata in TLS. This guide will show you how to improve privacy by enabling ECH in Edge. Read more...

Cloudflare launches cryptography experiment to protect against future quantum computers

Paul Hill — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 15:30:01 +0000

Cloudflare is running a trial in an attempt to push forward early adoption of quantum encryption that can't be broken by quantum computers. NIST is planning to standardize Kyber encryption in 2024. Read more...

Cloudflare just stopped the biggest HTTPS DDoS attack on record

Paul Hill — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:24:01 +0000

Cloudflare has stopped the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record. The botnet was making 26 million requests per second leveraging Cloud Service Providers' virtual machines and servers. Read more...

Cloudflare announces Private Access Tokens - verification without CAPTCHAs

Paul Hill — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 22:30:01 +0000

Cloudflare has announced Private Access Tokens, a way for people to avoid completing CAPTCHAs. Apple will add support for PATs in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS 13 which are due in the fall. Read more...

Cloudflare reports that it has blocked one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks ever seen

Paul Hill — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 01:24:01 +0000

Cloudflare has recorded the largest ever HTTPS DDoS attack against one of its customers. It said HTTPS DDoS attacks are more expensive to launch and more expensive to mitigate for those targeted. Read more...

Microsoft testing integrated VPN ‘Secure Network' in Edge powered by Cloudflare

Alap Naik Desai — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 22:30:01 +0000

Microsoft Edge Secure Network Service is a new VPN for the web browser. it will offer secure and private browsing with 1GB per month for free with data tunneling through Cloudflare servers. Read more...

Cloudflare acquires anti-phishing firm Area 1 Security for $162 million

Paul Hill — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 01:26:01 +0000

Cloudflare has acquired Area 1 Security, an email anti-phishing firm, for $162 million. Cloudflare already made inroads into the email security domain and this purchase will boost those efforts. Read more...

TikTok beats Google to become the most popular website of 2021

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 07:28:02 +0000

TikTok surpassed Google and became the world's most popular domain in the year 2021 according to Cloudflare. Last year at the same time, TikTok was at number 7 on the list and Google was in the lead. Read more...

Cloudflare says it handled the most monstrous DDoS attack ever like a total champ

Sayan Sen — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 20:34:02 +0000

Cloudflare says it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever with the help of its in-house DDoS protection daemon. According to its data, this massive attack brought in 17.2 million requests per second. Read more...

Cloudflare wants to save 500 years per day of humans trying to solve CAPTCHA by killing it

Subir Kathuria — Sat, 15 May 2021 16:50:01 +0000

Cloudflare says humans waste about 32 seconds per instance totalling 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. The company is launching an experiment to get rid of CAPTCHAs completely and end this "madness". Read more...

Cloudflare's Web Analytics gains three most requested features

Paul Hill — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 14:22:02 +0000

Cloudflare has released three new features to its Web Analytics solution that it opened up to the world last December. The update brings support for Single Page Applications and adding multiple sites. Read more...

Cloudflare Waiting Room will help sites deal with demand

Paul Hill — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:08:02 +0000

The anti-DDoS firm, Cloudflare, has launched a new tool called Waiting Room. The feature can be used to help websites protect against a deluge of traffic by forcing people to wait in a queue. Read more...

Cloudflare Image Resizing adds support for AVIF images

Paul Hill — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 17:02:01 +0000

Cloudflare has added support for the AVIF image format to its Image Resizing service. AVIF is only supported by Opera and Chrome right now but brings big improvements to image compression. Read more...

Cloudflare is bringing WARP to macOS and Windows

Jay Bonggolto — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 22:30:01 +0000

Cloudflare has launched WARP on Windows and macOS in beta. It will be available to WARP+ customers first who have subscribed to its Argo network, with email invites coming in the next few weeks. Read more...

Cloudflare fires 8chan as a customer over Texas mass shooting

Jay Bonggolto — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 07:14:01 +0000

Cloudflare announced today that it has kicked out 8chan from its infrastructure after the online message board was used by the El Paso, Texas shooter before killing 20 people at a Walmart store. Read more...

Cloudflare experiences network issues; causes problems with Discord, Down Detector and more [Update]

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:30:01 +0000

Well-known web hosting service Cloudflare has just gone down, taking with it multiple websites and services like Discord, Down Detector and Feedly. The company is investigating the issue. Read more...

Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS gets a free VPN with Warp

João Carrasqueira — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 01:16:01 +0000

Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS service, which it touts as the fastest in the world, is expanding to also get a VPN. Called Warp, it promises faster connections than most VPNs and will soon launch in beta. Read more...

Cloudflare Spectrum brings DDoS protection to any TCP protocol

Gabriel Nunes — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 23:48:01 +0000

Cloudflare has announced its new Spectrum service, which extends the company's DDoS protection service to any TCP protocol, including gaming services, remote server access, and email. Read more...

Cloudflare has launched the internet's fastest, privacy-first DNS service, 1.1.1.1

Gabriel Nunes — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 17:10:01 +0000

Cloudflare announced today its first consumer product ever, the 1.1.1.1 DNS service, which focuses on privacy and is already the fastest available. No, this is not an April Fools prank. Read more...

A major Cloudflare bug was responsible for leaking customers' sensitive data

Gabriel Nunes — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 15:18:01 +0000

For a period of up to five months, sensitive data of Cloudflare customers may have leaked due to a HTML parser bug. The company was made aware of the issue by an engineer from Google's Project Zero. Read more...

More than 650,000 Chinese smartphones unknowingly participate in massive DDoS attack

Chris Dupres — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:12:01 +0000

A huge Distributed Denial of Service attack has hit an unnamed web server. 650,000 Chinese smartphones unwittingly enrolled in this attack, likely caused by a set of malicious adverts. Read more...