Follow the thread: a new dashboard to investigate account abuse

What happened

Consequently, identity checks are no longer sufficient as they capture a moment in time. Fraudsters are increasingly using AI to bypass stateless security checks.

Cloudflare's new Account Abuse Protection dashboard operates with stateful analysis and edge-generated Hashed User IDs to help teams investigate and block account abuse. Traditionally, preventing online fraud relied on point-in-time proof of identity: enter the correct password, complete a biometric verification, or pass a liveness check, and gain access.

To defeat these controls, fraudsters had to steal credentials and other identity evidence from a real user, which was difficult to execute and scale. Today, widespread access to AI enables fraudsters to fabricate or imitate legitimate identities by combining exposed credentials with synthetic media designed to evade identity verification.

Key facts

• Cloudflare's new Account Abuse Protection dashboard — uses: stateful analysis and edge-generated Hashed User IDs to help teams investigate and block account abuse