Cloudflare has revealed that it was the target of a likely nation-state attack in which the threat actor leveraged stolen credentials to gain unauthorized access to its Atlassian server and ultimately access some documentation and a limited amount of source code. The intrusion, which took place between November 14 and 24, 2023, and detected on […]
Web application firewalls, also known as WAFs, are intended to protect web-based applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) from malicious HTTPS traffic coming from the outside, particularly cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks, which never seem to fall off the security radar. SQL injection in particular is a constant among the output of automated code […]
Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Tuesday disclosed at least 76 employees and their family members received text messages on their personal and work phones bearing similar characteristics as that of the sophisticated phishing attack against Twilio. The attack, which transpired around the same time Twilio was targeted, came from four phone numbers associated with T-Mobile-issued […]
The botnet behind the largest HTTPS distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in June 2022 has been linked to a spate of attacks aimed at nearly 1,000 Cloudflare customers. Calling the powerful botnet Mantis, the web performance and security company attributed it to more than 3,000 HTTP DDoS attacks against its users. The most attacked industry verticals […]
Cloudflare on Tuesday disclosed that it had acted to prevent a record-setting 26 million request per second (RPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack last week, making it the largest HTTPS DDoS attack detected to date. The web performance and security company said the attack was directed against an unnamed customer website using its Free plan and […]
Cloudflare on Wednesday disclosed that it acted to mitigate a 15.3 million request-per-second (RPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The web infrastructure and website security company called it one of the “largest HTTPS DDoS attacks on record.” “HTTPS DDoS attacks are more expensive in terms of required computational resources because of the higher cost of establishing […]
Being a USA-based web infrastructure and website security company, Cloudflare works for other companies managing connections to servers and web pages. Recently, Cloudflare has claimed that it has mitigated one of the largest DDoS attacks in history that involve more than 17.2 million Request-Per-Second (rps). Cloudflare works very efficiently, soon after detecting this large HTTP […]
Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date. The attack, launched via a Mirai botnet, is said to have targeted an unnamed customer in the financial industry last month. “Within seconds, the botnet bombarded the Cloudflare edge […]
A group of specialists has detailed a method for abusing a well-known “H2C smuggling” technique in order to authenticate and bypass some WAF mechanisms on multiple cloud platforms. Early stages of the attack include WAF routing and omissions in Microsoft Azure, as well as an authentication bypass in Cloudflare Access. Bishop Fox developers mention that […]
Cloudflare is a denial of service (DDoS) protection mechanism for your servers or, so to speak, it is a barrier between the user and the websites they visit. This tool functions as a proxy, providing additional services such as caching, attack protection and hiding the true IP address of the server hosting the user’s website. […]
Flan Scan is a lightweight network vulnerability scanner. With Flan Scan you can easily find open ports on your network, identify services and their version, and get a list of relevant CVEs affecting your network.Flan Scan is a wrapper over Nmap and the vulners script which turns Nmap into a full-fledged network vulnerability scanner. Flan […]
Mozilla publishes FAQ reports that outline its implementation plans for DNS-over-HTTPS. Mozilla has today clarified that “no funds are being exchanged for DNS Cloudflare requests” as part of the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) function currently being slowly switched on to Firefox users in the United States. The app developer has recently been heavily criticized for its Cloudflare […]
The infamous messageboard 8chan responsible for spreading hateful content against minorities and people of color has been forced to go offline after hosting company Voxility booted the site off from its server. Voxility’s decision came right after the website security firm Cloudflare announced cutting off its services for 8chan. Cloudflare’s decision came hours after it […]
In a blog post, CEO of security services provider Cloudflare, Matthew Prince, announced that Cloudflare will pull support for 8chan services at midnight tonight Pacific Time. The decision comes after federal authorities discovered that the main suspect in El Paso’s shooting posted a 2,300-word manifesto onto 8chan, prior to going on a killing spree. On […]
Cloudmare is a simple tool to find origin servers of websites protected by CloudFlare with a misconfiguration DNS. Cloudmare Setup Clone the repository $ git clone https://github.com/MrH0wl/Cloudmare.git Install the dependencies $ cd cloudmare $ pip install -r requirements.txt Run Cloudmare (see Usage below for more detail) $ python cloudmare.py target.site -s Usage $ python cloudmare.py […]
If you are visiting a website and it is displaying “502 Bad Gateway” error it is not your fault but an issue with Cloudflare. Update: July 12th, 2019 – Cloudflare has published a detailed report explaining why the service went down. While Cloudflare’s transparency is exemplary, other companies should follow the same path. Cloudflare’s report […]
Download the app and toggle on it to generate a VPN profile that will automatically reroute the DNS traffic using the 1.1.1.1 DNS servers. On April 1, 2018, Cloudflare and APNIC launched the 1.1.1.1 public DNS service to speed up the searching process for web addresses faster and more secure. It is basically a DNS […]
Cloudflare owned DNS service faced a Critical issue during the new interaction and goes down for 17 Minutes that lead to 1.1.1.1 DNS Resolver to be Globally Inaccessible. Also, DDoS Mitigation system launch DDoS on its own infrastructure and no DDOS Attacks was protected while downtime being occurred. DNS 1.1.1.1 was recently announced by Cloudflare which is one […]
Cloudflare introduces Spectrum to protect any services that connected to the Internet. Spectrum works in the same way as the Cloudflare and it extends Cloudflare to 65,533 more Ports. This means with the spectrum you can extend the Cloudflare’s DDoS, TLS, and IP Firewall protection beyond the webservers to protect other TCP based services such as […]
HatCloud is built in Ruby. It tries to bypass CloudFlare and discover real IP. This can be useful if you need to test your web server and website. HatCloud simply uses another website to pull the data and the script is not making any use of a vulnerability or bug within CloudFlare. Installation and Usage: […]
Cloudflare is a service that acts as a middleman between a website and its end users, protecting it from various attacks. Unfortunately, those websites are often poorly configured, allowing an attacker to entirely bypass Cloudflare and run DDoS attacks or exploit web-based vulnerabilities that would otherwise be blocked. This post demonstrates the weakness and introduces CloudFlair, […]