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

2026-04-05T07:24:06Zcdf3c4f21b631fe4b8cd5f2d687855a3c6f8f7e7211faff213a13b0770978402
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What happened

Cloudflare published a set of security announcements covering both product launches and disclosures/fixes. Key items: Client‑Side Security (cascading AI detections combining graph neural nets and LLMs) is being opened to all users; AI Security for Apps is GA and AI discovery is now free; Account Abuse Protection enters Early Access; a new Web & API Vulnerability Scanner and Log Explorer enhancements support multi‑vector investigations. Notable vulnerability disclosures and fixes: request‑smuggling issues in Pingora OSS when used as an ingress proxy (fixed in Pingora 0.8.0), a mitigation for an

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