Cloudflare

Cloudflare content delivery network (CDN) has experienced a new outage that has affected numerous websites globally. The failure, which occurred shortly before 10 a.m., coincided with a scheduled maintenance operation at the company’s data center in Detroit. Affected Websites and Recurrence of Failures The service outage left dozens of popular platforms inaccessible, including: Social media and streaming platforms: LinkedIn, Crunchyroll. Financial services: Bankinter, Caixa Bank. Tools and work platforms: Vinted, Canva, Zoom. Games and AI: Fortnite, Claude AI. The Downdetector portal, used to monitor the status of online platforms, was also momentarily affected by the incident. ...

Cloudflare has announced the detection and mitigation of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 29.7 terabits per second (Tbps), the largest ever recorded by the company. The attack, lasting 69 seconds, was launched by the botnet for hire known as AISURU. The AISURU Botnet: The Engine of the Attack Cloudflare identified that the attack came from the AISURU botnet, a cybercrime network that has been linked to numerous hypervolume DDoS attacks over the past year. The AISURU botnet is estimated to be powered by a massive network of between 1 and 4 million infected hosts worldwide. ...