A threat group known as Anonymous Sudan claimed that they were the ones who took down Cloudflare's website in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack
A threat group known as Anonymous Sudan claimed that they were the ones who took down Cloudflare's website in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Cloudflare experienced a DDoS attack that caused a few intermittent connectivity issues to www.cloudflare.com, showing only a stock Google apology.
"We're sorry ... but your computer or network may send automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now," the notice read. Not long after, Cloudflare added a report to its status page.
Anonymous Sudan (aka Storm-1359) also claimed a DDoS attack that took down OpenAI's ChatGPT bot on Wednesday and other attacks that have impacted Microsoft's Outlook.com, OneDrive, and Azure Portal in June.
Cloudflare confirmed that the outage resulted from a DDoS attack that only affected the www.cloudflare.com website without impacting other customers' products or services. The company didn't attribute the attack to a specific threat actor.
Cloudflare's website is deliberately hosted on separate infrastructure, ensuring that any issues or activities related to the website do not affect the functionality of Cloudflare services.
In an incident report added to its status page, Cloudflare said it's now looking into the issue. www.cloudflare.com is experiencing problems. The Cloudflare Dashboard is accessible through dash.cloudflare.com and APIs, and all Cloudflare services are unaffected.
Last week, Cloudflare's dashboard and APIs also went down after a power outage impacted its core data centre in North America.
The complete list of services whose functionality was fully or partially affected also included Logpush, WARP / Zero Trust device posture, Stream API, Workers API, and the Alert Notification System.
Customers reported having issues logging into their accounts and seeing 'Code: 10000' authentication and internal server errors when accessing Cloudflare's dashboard.
Another outage took down multiple products on Monday, 30 October, including Cloudflare Sites and Services (Access, CDN Cache Purge, Dashboard, Images, Pages, Turnstile, Waiting Room, WARP, Workers KV).
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