Cloudflare Client-Side Security: smarter detection, now open to everyone

2026-04-01T07:24:05Z1241695504e6a810bf06e7997c085aaaa6f33c6d075b431cca22fb6553f54499
ACME validationAI securityAPI vulnerability scannerCGNAT detectionCloudy (LLM explanations)DDoS reportLLMsLog ExplorerMatrix homeserverMerkle Tree CertificatesPingoraQUICWorkers VPCacknowledgement-based DDoScertificate automationclient-side securitygraph neural networksopen-source vulnerability disclosurephishing detectionpost-quantum cryptographyrequest smuggling

What happened

Collection of Cloudflare security blog posts (late 2025–Mar 2026) covering new product launches and multiple security disclosures and mitigations. Highlights include: rollout of advanced client-side detection (GNNs + LLMs) and expanded AI/LLM security features (AI Security for Apps, Cloudy explanations, phishing/Email improvements); a disclosed request-smuggling vulnerability in the open-source Pingora ingress proxy with fixes in Pingora 0.8.0; a vulnerability and mitigation in Cloudflare’s ACME certificate validation automation; two QUIC acknowledgement-based DDoS vulnerabilities that were-p-

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2026-04-01T07:24:05Z
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