Cloudflare said it received complaints from customers about Perplexity using stealthy tactics to evade network blocks against systematic browsing and scraping of web pages.

The move is the result customer feedback, since they neither wanted to grant AI web crawlers unrestricted access to their data nor block the practice entirely.  

Cryptography experts said a “Cambrian explosion” of standards is on its way as a response to worries over quantum computers breaking current algorithms.

The initiative is part of a long-term plan to update all its encryption services to newer algorithms designed to protect against quantum computers.

Anish Patel | Federal Director of Sales | Cloudflare

The company said that the 5.6 Tbps attack is indicative of the steady increase in the size of these attacks.

A criminal complaint says the group jeopardized lives via DDoS attack, with 35,000 attacks since the beginning of 2023.

A new zero-day led to the largest distributed denial of service attack ever seen on the internet, according to a group of tech companies.

Attacks used to make websites and web services inaccessible are evolving and becoming more concerning, the company said Tuesday.

Cloudflare speaks with CyberScoop at the 2023 CrowdStrike Government Summit