{"id":49436,"date":"2021-09-14T16:15:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T13:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49436"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:39:21","slug":"cloudflare-ceo-cryptocurrency-exchanges-have-become-a-popular-target-for-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/cloudflare-ceo-cryptocurrency-exchanges-have-become-a-popular-target-for-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudflare CEO: cryptocurrency exchanges have become a popular target for hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency exchanges have become a popular target for cyberattacks, Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince said in an interview on the Mad Money show on CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>According to Prince, cryptocurrency exchanges are among Cloudflare&#8217;s clients. He noted that experts are recording &#8216;more and more innovations by attackers in this space&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond exchanges, cybercriminals are also targeting other services in the cryptocurrency industry, Prince added.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare provides network infrastructure services, secure access to resources and DNS servers, and also protects against DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/experts-report-rise-in-ddos-attacks-on-cryptocurrency-services\">StormWall data<\/a>, in the first quarter of 2021 the number of DDoS attacks on cryptocurrency services rose significantly. Experts noted that last year hackers&#8217; activity in the financial sector was mainly aimed at banks, but this year their attention has shifted to crypto-related services.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency exchanges have become a popular target for cyberattacks, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said in an interview on the Mad Money show on CNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1166,1800,1154],"class_list":["post-49436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-cloudflare","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"26","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49438,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49436\/revisions\/49438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}