Cloudflare

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Cloudflare, a publicly owned company headquartered in the US, founded in 2009 and employing approximately 3,090 individuals, reported $2.2B in revenue as of 2025. The company specializes in enterprise and telecoms software, functioning as a cybersecurity provider.

2025 Revenue

Founded

2009

Headcount

5,156

Headquarters

United States

Primary Segment

Enterprise and telecoms software

Ownership

Publicly Owned

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Cloudflare introduced an "Accountable" designation for AI crawlers and new "Disallow AI Training" controls on September 18, 2026, enabling website owners to manage search AI training and AI agent access separately with recommended presets and Bot Preference Sync. Concurrently, Cloudflare is among companies, including Google and Microsoft, testing methods to compensate websites for AI access to or use of their content, with each entity establishing its own rules for payment triggers and content owner control. Earlier on September 18, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced that web traffic from automated bots and AI agents surpassed human traffic in May, accounting for almost 60% of requests to websites, a shift he had expected to occur later. Additionally, a Cloudflare executive noted on September 18 that demand for cybersecurity professionals with AI skills has reached a "fever pitch," driven by AI's impact on both threat and defense capabilities. Previously, on September 17, Cloudflare began blocking artificial intelligence agents by default on pages that carry ads. This new preset for ad-supported domains specifically refuses AI training and blocks user-directed agents, such as chat fetch bots and browser-use agents, with no opt-out directive currently available for these agents.

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Cloudflare offers 7 products in the media tech, enterprise tech and telecoms tech industries. Cloudflare's product portfolio comprises of telecoms network infrastructure, connectivity and distribution services, enterprise security and enterprise and telecoms software.

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Cloudflare's revenues were $2.2B in 2025. Caretta Research has split Cloudflare's revenue into 6 different product categories, the largest of which is cybersecurity and intrusion detection, which represents 32% of Cloudflare's revenue.

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Sep

23rd

2026

12:53

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag, Legal Issues and Lawsuits

Cloudflare And Microsoft Lead Takedown Of Phishing Platform Built To Bypass Multi

Cloudflare and Microsoft have joined forces with law enforcement to dismantle a phishing-as-a-service operation that automated the theft of Microsoft Office 365 authentication tokens and enabled business email compromise campaigns affecting thousands of organisations worldwide. The platform, known as EvilTokens, sold access to a web-based panel that allowed criminal customers to collect tokens used for authentication to Microsoft Office 365 environments, bypassing multi-factor authentication protections.

SMBtech

Sep

23rd

2026

07:38

Emerging Tech, Partnerships and Alliances, B2B Tag, Partnerships

Cloudflare & Microsoft disrupt EvilTokens phishing service

Cloudflare and Microsoft have disrupted the EvilTokens phishing service, targeting a platform linked to more than 12,000 compromised inboxes across more than 10,000 organisations worldwide. Australia was among the countries with the highest concentration of victim activity, according to Cloudflare's threat intelligence team, Cloudforce One.

ChannelLife Australia

Sep

23rd

2026

05:06

New Offerings, B2B Tag, New Offerings

Five Runtime Architectures, Five Bets on Where Agent Execution Lives

When an agent needs to run continuously for days — maintaining state, watching for events, serving a single user — the compute requirements look nothing like a typical web service. But when that same agent needs to spin up for a single task and tear down afterward, or handle millions of lightweight requests at the edge, a different runtime model entirely becomes necessary.

Forkast.News

Sep

23rd

2026

02:44

Artificial Intelligence

Cloudflare accuses Perplexity of "Stealth Crawling" blocked sites

In a new development that highlights growing tensions between AI companies and content publishers, internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare has publicly accused the AI search startup Perplexity of using "stealth crawling" techniques to bypass website restrictions. The allegations, detailed in a Cloudflare blog post, claim that Perplexity’s AI bots are actively disguising their identity and ignoring established web protocols to scrape content from sites that have explicitly blocked them.

Verified Market Research

Sep

22nd

2026

21:07

B2B Tag, Data Breach

GhostJacking: Your WAF Blocked the Attack. Your AI Agent Finished It.

Your Cloudflare WAF flagged the request. Blocked it. Logged it. Then your AI coding agent read that log to debug the issue — and silently rerouted your company’s DNS to attacker infrastructure. No CVE required. No authentication bypass.

Byteiota

Sep

22nd

2026

17:56

New Offerings, New Offerings

Cloudflare Automatically Provisions Temporary Test Servers for Coding Agents

Beating AI Express News: Cloudflare has launched Worker Previews. Workers can be simply understood as backend programs running on Cloudflare, used to handle APIs, logins, databases, and web requests. Now, every time a developer or Coding Agent creates a new Git branch, they can spin up an independent temporary test environment for these Workers.

Lookonchain

Sep

22nd

2026

17:03

Regulatory and Legal, Emerging Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Legal Issues and Lawsuits

Microsoft Takes Down EvilTokens Device-Code Phishing Service Tied to 12,000 Inbox Compromises

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the takedown of the EvilTokens device code phishing service that it said used artificial intelligence (AI) "at every step of the attack chain." The action, carried out with authorization from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, involved the efforts of Health-ISAC, alongside Cloudflare , Coinbase, OpenAI, Railway, SpyCloud, The Shadowserver Foundation, and TRM Labs.

The Hacker News

Sep

22nd

2026

15:57

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag, Legal Issues and Lawsuits

Jurisdiction Without a Locus: Legal Enforcement in Decentralized Storage Systems

Jurisdiction Without a Locus: Legal Enforcement in Decentralized Storage Systems A briefing on how IPFS, Arweave, and Filecoin strain traditional takedown law, where legal authority is actually being exerted, and the emerging effort to map legal personality onto autonomous code actors.

Medium

Sep

22nd

2026

08:55

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Cloudflare Wants More From Blockchains Than Crypto Can Deliver

- Cloudflare NET -- CEO Matthew Prince demands a 100M TPS blockchain, far exceeding current crypto networks’ 2M TPS. - He aims to replace ad-funded web with AI-driven micropayments via a stablecoin SDEV -- and fast settlement layer.

AInvest

Sep

22nd

2026

08:30

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Cloudflare WARP vs VPN: Is WARP Really a VPN? (2026)

Sure, at a mechanical level, WARP certainly borrows the shape of a traditional VPN. Your data leaves your device through an encrypted tunnel, hits a nearby Cloudflare edge server, and exits onto the wider internet from there.

Windscribe

Sep

22nd

2026

08:15

Cloudflare and AdGuard Lead Phishing DNS Blocks in 100-Host Test

C loudflare, Quad9, NextDNS, and AdGuard returned substantially different phishing-blocking results in a 100-hostname DNS comparison published by MakeUseOf on September 22, 2026, giving PC users and administrators a useful reason to examine resolver configurations and test methods before treating any provider’s overall score as a security ranking.

Windows Forum

Sep

22nd

2026

07:30

New Offerings

Introducing Worker Previews: Isolated preview environments for every change your agent makes

Nothing is worse than testing out a change that works in staging, only to see it behave differently in production. That’s why we wanted to give you an environment that’s as close to production as possible — so you can battle-test your changes and make sure they behave exactly as you expect them to.

Cloudflare

Cloudflare's customers primarily consist of software Development, iT Services and IT Consulting and maritime Transportation companies. Examples of Cloudflare's customers include DeNA, Biznet and Hapag-Lloyd. Cloudflare has commercial and technical partners like Castr and Kyndryl.

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