
Whoever took down Cloudflare during the outage put their infrastructure at risk
A major outage in Cloudflare’s infrastructure has unexpectedly tested the robustness of the cloud and its security systems for many businesses. On November 18, service outages caused websites around the world to go down multiple times, and some customers attempted to temporarily abandon the platform to maintain resource availability. This forced maneuver also caused web applications to lose traditional malicious traffic filtering, which Cloudflare typically blocks at the edge of the network, for several hours. The problems began around 6:30 AM EST (11:30 UTC), when a notification about internal service degradation appeared on the status page. Over the next few hours, resources










