Turning Cloudflare’s threat indicators into real-time WAF rules

**TL;DR:** Turning Cloudflare’s threat indicators into real-time WAF rules

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Cloudflare’s Threat Events provides security analysts with a window into the global threat landscape. The platform offers a peek into the immense traffic that Cloudflare processes every day, so you can see in real time which IPs are attacking specific industries or which threat actors are trending globally. However, translating that visibility into active mitigation has often been a manual, reactive process.

Security teams have faced a recurring frustration: knowing that certain IP addresses were associated with specific threat actors (like Tycoon 2FA or RaccoonO365 ) or had been seen targeting their specific industry in other regions, but they couldn't easily automate the blocking of these high-risk IPs within their own WAF unless they manually configured the rules. We are excited to announce a new integration that brings Cloudflare’s vast threat intelligence directly into your WAF engine: you can now write proactive rules using live intelligence data .

This means you can add more intelligence context to protect your application against known bad actors — before they even attempt to touch your infrastructure. By populating specialized fields during the early stages of a request, t

Source: Cloudflare Blog

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Last updated: June 16, 2026.

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