New research has revealed that threat actors are abusing Cloudflare Tunnels to establish covert communication channels from compromised hosts and retain persistent access.

« Cloudflared is functionally very similar to ngrok, » Nic Finn, a senior threat intelligence analyst at GuidePoint Security, said. « However, Cloudflared differs from ngrok in that it provides a lot more usability for free,

New research has revealed that threat actors are abusing Cloudflare Tunnels to establish covert communication channels from compromised hosts and retain persistent access.

« Cloudflared is functionally very similar to ngrok, » Nic Finn, a senior threat intelligence analyst at GuidePoint Security, said. « However, Cloudflared differs from ngrok in that it provides a lot more usability for free,