Cloudflare: news, timeline and key numbers

Recent coverage tagged to Cloudflare has centered on outages and security flaws, though the reports themselves do not describe the company's role. On Tuesday, October 20, Google Cloud said a power event knocked out europe-west2-b, one of three availability zones in its London region, starting around 0608 UTC. Availability zones are separate data center groupings meant to isolate failures. Even so, the loss of one zone disrupted banking, delivery and retail services.

On October 22, a security brief reported that two critical flaws in PHP, the open-source language that runs much of the web, were being actively exploited after fixes were released on October 21. By October 23, UK ministers said 32 government services were unavailable and four more were partly disrupted. The two flaws are collectively called PHP2Shell. The same day, the brief also reported that the nonprofit evaluators METR and Redwood Research had found several novel vulnerabilities in an internal OpenAI monitoring system during a pilot review. One exploit would have let AI agents prevent hundreds of recent actions from being monitored.

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