How Cloudflare helps secure the inboxes of democracy

This post details how Cloudflare's Area 1 product protected over 100 political campaigns during the US 2022 midterm elections, processing over 20 million emails and stopping approximately 150,000 phishing attacks. It highlights specific attack vectors such as domain proximity phishing and malicious attachments (e.g., 7-Zip files disguised as purchase orders). The post explains how Area 1's machine learning models analyze threat signals like domain similarity, recent domain registration, attachment types, and email sentiment to identify and block malicious emails, thereby securing democratic institutions by protecting campaign inboxes.