Cloudflare’s Dark Side: Phishing Surge Turns Trusted Tools into Cybercrime Havens
Cybercriminals are swiping Cloudflare’s good name, using Cloudflare Pages and Workers to host phishing sites and launch attacks. With abuse rates skyrocketing up to 250%, it’s like they found a “Get Legit-looking Attacks” free card. Remember, if a link smells fishy, it probably is—Cloudflare branding or not!
Hot Take:
**_If cybercriminals were chefs, Cloudflare’s domains would be their favorite sous-chefs, whipping up phishing schemes faster than you can say “SSL/TLS encryption.”_**
Key Points:
– Cybercriminals are exploiting Cloudflare’s ‘pages.dev’ and ‘workers.dev’ domains for phishing attacks.
– Reported abuse of these domains has surged by 100% to 250% compared to 2023, according to Fortra.
– Cloudflare Pages facilitates phishing by hosting intermediary pages that redirect to malicious sites.
– Cloudflare Workers is being misused for DDoS attacks, phishing, and injecting harmful scripts.
– Users are advised to verify URLs and use two-factor authentication for better security.