Cloudflare wrongly suspected that the widespread outage that took numerous websites offline on November 18 was caused by a DDoS attack, the companys CEO has admitted

A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game, League Of Legends, to the New Jersey Transit system early Tuesday

The outage was reminiscent of those that hit Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft cloud services last month, disrupting some online services for video games, businesses and transport firms

Global network provider Cloudflare has published a statement via its official blog concerning the major six-hour disruption yesterday on 18 November 2025, which impacted websites and services worldwide

Thought it was the victim of a hyper-scale DDoS attack before finding the fix Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a hyper-scale DDoS attack, before figuring out the real problem.

A major outage rippled across the web, knocking many of the internet's biggest sites offline.

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Cloudflare is experiencing global issues, the service confirmed to Mashable on Tuesday morning.

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OpenAI's ChatGPT and Elon Musk's social media platform X were among the sites impacted by the Cloudflare issues.

Outage leaves users staring at error pages while recovery crawls along Updated Internet services provider Cloudflare is suffering a major outage that has knocked chunks of the web offline including The Register .

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"We apologise to our customers and the Internet in general" the web infrastructure company said.

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Can't load your latest podcast episode? A major Cloudflare outage is affecting websites, including Apple Podcasts.

Users who tried to log into ChatGPT on Nov. 18 were met with this error message: "Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed."

Its not just you Cloudflare is down, which has brought down a great number of sites

[ UPDATE 22:42 ] Cloudflare has implemented a fix and believes it has solved the issue

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In a submission for the 2026 National Trade Estimate Report (PDF), Cloudflare warns the U.S

This isn't the first time Perplexity has been accused of misrepresenting its AI tools to access content. In August, Cloudflare claimed that the company's bots were accessing blocked websites by pretending to be a normal Chrome browser user on macOS

An anonymous reader shares a report: Before the potential of the internet was appreciated around the world, nations that understood its importance managed to scoop outsized allocations of IPv4 addresses, actions that today mean many users in the rest of the world are more likely to find their connections throttled or blocked. So says Cloudflare, which last week published research that recalls how once the world started to run out of IPv4 addresses, engineers devised network address translation (NAT) so that multiple devices can share a single IPv4 address

Google launched reCaptcha v3 in 2018 to generate risk scores based on behavioral signals during site interactions, making bot-blocking technology "completely invisible" for most users, according to Tim Knudsen, a director of product management at Google Cloud. Cloudflare followed in 2022 by releasing Turnstile, another invisible alternative that sometimes appears as a simple checkbox but actually gathers data from devices and software to determine if users are human

Dev Ittycheria, who took MongoDB public in 2017, is leaving the CEO role but will stay on the company's board

When operators see danger, innocent users are dragged down along with bad actors Before the potential of the internet was appreciated around the world, nations that understood its importance managed to scoop outsized allocations of IPv4 addresses, actions that today mean many users in the rest of the world are more likely to find their connections throttled or blocked

Cloudflares Q3 report reveals how government shutdowns, natural disasters, and cable damage continue to cripple global internet connectivity worldwide

"We've spent the last year rebuilding major components of our system," Cloudflare announced this week, "and we've just slashed the latency of traffic passing through our network for millions of our customers," (There's a 10ms cut in the median time to respond, plus a 25% performance boost as measured by CDN performance tests.) They replaced a 15-year-old system named FL (where they run security and performance features), and "At the same time, we've made our system more secure, and we've reduced the time it takes for us to build and release new products." And yes, Rust was involved: We write a lot of Rust, and we've gotten pretty good at it..

From natural disasters to stray bullets and exams, it's been a shaky quarter for the world's connectivity Cloudflare's latest internet disruptions report reads like a global disaster log, with exam-related shutdowns, natural calamities, stray bullets, and even a Starlink software failure all taking chunks out of global connectivity.

The malicious sites feature convincing download portals for the fake apps and instruct users to copy a curl command in their Terminal to install them, the researchers say. In other cases, like for TradingView, the malicious commands are presented as a "connection security confirmation step." However, if the user clicks on the 'copy' button, a base64-encoded installation command is delivered to the clipboard instead of the displayed Cloudflare verification ID

Perplexity doesnt have a great reputation, even when you consider the broader AI industry. In August, Cloudflare accused the company of scraping websites it wasnt supposed to be