Internet Disruptions from Natural Disasters and Government Action in Q2 2026

Throughout the most recent quarter, Cloudflare Radar documented connectivity interruptions stemming from natural disasters, state-mandated shutdowns, and DNSSEC key rotations. The company analyzed traffic telemetry data to understand how these incidents affected worldwide internet access.

Project Galileo Reaches 12-Year Milestone

Marking 12 years of Project Galileo, Cloudflare released its inaugural comprehensive report examining cyberattacks targeting civil society organizations.

Privacy Commitments for 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver

Eight years following its launch, the 1.1.1.1 resolver was introduced to deliver faster and more private internet access. The company has now disclosed findings from a recent independent audit confirming that privacy safeguards function exactly as promised.

Cloudflare Account Abuse Protection Announced

Bot blocking alone is no longer sufficient defense. Cloudflare's enhanced fraud prevention capabilities, currently available in early access, work to stop malicious account activities before they occur, addressing threats from both automated and human-driven attacks.

AI Security for Apps Reaches General Availability

Cloudflare AI Security for Apps has transitioned to general availability, delivering security capabilities for detecting and protecting AI-based applications regardless of model type or hosting provider. Additionally, AI detection is now free across all service tiers to help teams identify and secure shadow AI deployments.

December 5, 2025 Cloudflare Network Incident

A significant traffic disruption occurred across Cloudflare infrastructure on December 5, 2025, beginning near 08:47 UTC. Resolution of the incident required approximately 25 minutes. The company apologized for the impact experienced by both its customers and other internet users. The outage resulted not from an attack but from configuration changes deployed to address a recent industry-wide vulnerability affecting React server components.

Q3 2025 DDoS Threat Report Released

Cloudflare has published the 23rd edition of its quarterly DDoS threat report. The analysis provides comprehensive examination of the shifting distributed denial-of-service threat landscape based on data from Cloudflare's network, with focus on the third quarter of 2025.

November 18, 2025 Service Disruption

Cloudflare services experienced an outage on November 18, 2025. The disruption stemmed from a logic error in the bot management function file generation process, which caused failures across numerous Cloudflare services.

Cloudflare Acquires PartyKit for Real-Time Collaborative Applications

PartyKit, a provider enabling developers to build ambitious real-time collaborative multiplayer applications, is now part of Cloudflare.

Rapid Development with Client and Server Frameworks on Cloudflare

Developers can now leverage their framework's development server while accessing D1 databases, R2 object storage, AI models, and additional resources. Local iterations occur in milliseconds when building sophisticated web applications deployed on Cloudflare infrastructure.

Cloudflare Email Retro-Scanning for Office 365 Threats

A free retro-scanning tool allows users to discover hidden threats within their Office 365 mailboxes.

Smart Placement Optimizes Application Performance

Smart Placement automatically positions workloads in optimal locations, reducing latency and accelerating application performance without requiring configuration effort.

Unintended Consequences of IP Address Blocking

Discussion of IP blocking practices examines why such blocking occurs, what it entails, its specific functions, affected aspects, and the problems associated with this approach to addressing security concerns.

Security Analytics Provides Comprehensive Traffic Visibility

Security Analytics delivers visibility across all HTTP traffic, not merely blocked requests, enabling focus on traffic identified as malicious but potentially not mitigated.

Stream Live Exits Beta and Reaches General Availability

Stream Live has completed its beta phase and is now available to all users, prepared to handle production traffic at scale.

Cloudflare Area 1 Email Security Enhanced

The Cloudflare dashboard now features a dedicated Email Security section, providing the simplest path for any Cloudflare customer to explore and begin using Cloudflare Area 1 email security services.

Adaptive DDoS Protection System Introduced

Cloudflare has introduced an adaptive DDoS protection system that profiles traffic characteristics to neutralize sophisticated DDoS attacks by adapting to each customer's unique traffic patterns.

Source: Cloudflare Blog