We're deeply concerned about the abuse management and prevention policies of Cloudflare, read the full article to understand what we're seeing, the critical issues, and our recommendations for change.
Research into websites that are openly advertising services to a cybercriminal audience, such as bulletproof hosting, reveals that many of these domains are supported by Cloudflare’s services, the NGO Spamhaus says.
For years, Spamhaus has observed abusive activity facilitated by Cloudflare’s various services. Cybercriminals have been exploiting these legitimate services to mask activities and enhance their malicious operations, a tactic referred to as living off trusted services (LOTS).
With 1201 unresolved Spamhaus Blocklist (SBL) listings, it is clear that the state of affairs at Cloudflare’s Connectivity Cloud looks less than optimal from an abuse-handling perspective, Spamhaus writes on its website. 10.05% of all domains listed on Spamhaus’s Domain Blocklist (DBL), which indicates signs of spam or malicious activity, are on Cloudflare nameservers . Spamhaus routinely observes miscreants moving their domains, which are already listed in the DBL, to Cloudflare to disguise the backend of their operation, be it spamvertized domains, phishing, or worse.
I really really don’t want cloudflare to gatekeep what is or isn’t allowed on the internet. That is the job of the hoster and/or NIC and at very worse the ISP of the hoster.
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I really really don’t want cloudflare to gatekeep what is or isn’t allowed on the internet. That is the job of the hoster and/or NIC and at very worse the ISP of the hoster.