Dane Knecht

New Capabilities

Said early attacks were emerging and Cloudflare was updating firewall rules as a stopgap

Palo Alto Networks confirmed that attackers chained the PHP2Shell flaws with a Linux kernel bug to take root control of its firewalls, and shipped hotfixes for PAN-OS 12.2, 12.1, 11.2, 11.1 and 10.2. Unit 42, the company's threat research arm, said it independently verified the tooling and results that Dream Security described.

Updated Nov 1

Built World

As of May 2026: Technical leader addressing recurrent 2026 outages via public apologies and explanations

From November 2025 through February 2026, Cloudflare suffered multiple major global outages, including a three-hour disruption on November 18, 2025, a 25–30 minute WAF misconfiguration incident on December 5, 2025, a BGP routing failure on January 22, 2026, and edge network instability on February 4, 2026. These events temporarily took down services like LinkedIn, Zoom, Shopify, Coinbase, ChatGPT, X, Spotify, and others that rely on Cloudflare's edge network, content delivery, and security services, affecting a significant portion of global HTTP traffic during peaks.

Updated May 9