Website Security & Threat Management
How Cloudflare is using automation to tackle phishing head on

How Cloudflare is using automation to tackle phishing head on

3/17/2025 · Javier Castro, Justin Paine, Rachael Truong

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This post details the development and deployment of advanced automation tooling to combat phishing attacks. It describes the transition from manual review of abuse reports to an automated system that resolves 78% of phishing reports with a median time to take action of under an hour. The system leverages the Cloudflare Developer Platform, including Workers, URL Scanner, machine learning classifiers, threat feeds, KV, Durable Objects, Hyperdrive, Queues, Workers AI, and D1, to process and analyze URLs, identify phishing indicators, and recommend actions. It also highlights how this intelligence is used to enhance customer-facing products like Brand Protection.

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