According to insights shared at RSAC 2026, voice phishing has substantially increased to become the second most prevalent initial access vector in cyberattacks overall, and is notably the leading tactic utilized by threat actors targeting cloud environments.
Cloudflare Reliability Concerns
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Recent dual global outages and significant botnet attacks underscore critical single points of failure in consolidated edge security, directly challenging reliability across hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise data centers managing power, cooling, and emerging AI workloads.
Cloudflare experienced a second service disruption within two months when standard maintenance procedures inadvertently caused the company's primary dashboard and API to fail, leading to widespread errors for customer sites globally.
Following a second major outage in a fortnight, an IT professional questions the wisdom of centralizing critical infrastructure functions like SSO and AI platforms onto a single, frequently failing edge provider.
Data from Cloudflare reveals that the Aisuru botnet generated a record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service attack reaching 29.7 Tbps during the third quarter, coinciding with an overall 87% surge in network-layer security threats.