Cloudflare Client-Side Security: smarter detection, now open to everyone
2026-04-05T19:24:05Z•f4c564bd75463e04477f689982fac246e3d0d6457d8e02c5a0340b8bac7042b2
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What happened
Collection of Cloudflare security blog posts (Nov 2025–Mar 2026) announcing new defensive capabilities, research, and several disclosed vulnerabilities/fixes. Key items: client-side security tools (cascading AI detectors combining GNNs and LLMs, claimed up to 200x fewer false positives); Account Abuse Protection and AI Security for Apps (AI discovery); new Web & API Vulnerability Scanner; Pingora OSS request-smuggling vulnerabilities fixed in Pingora 0.8.0; mitigation of an ACME certificate-validation vulnerability; fixes for two QUIC acknowledgement-based DDoS vulnerabilities; a 2025 Q4 DDoS
Why it matters
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- cloudflare_security_blog
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- f4c564bd75463e04477f689982fac246e3d0d6457d8e02c5a0340b8bac7042b2
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- 2026-04-05T19:24:05Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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