{"id":204336,"date":"2025-01-23T02:32:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/cloudflare-cdn-flaw-leaks-user-location-data-even-through-secure-chat-apps"},"modified":"2025-01-23T02:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:32:49","slug":"cloudflare-cdn-flaw-leaks-user-location-data-even-through-secure-chat-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/cloudflare-cdn-flaw-leaks-user-location-data-even-through-secure-chat-apps","title":{"rendered":"Cloudflare CDN flaw leaks user location data, even through secure chat apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cloudflare-cdn-flaw-leaks-user-location-data-even-through-secure-chat-apps2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A security researcher discovered a flaw in Cloudflare\u2019s content delivery network (CDN), which could expose a person\u2019s general location by simply sending them an image on platforms like Signal and Discord.<\/p>\n<p>While the geo-locating capability of the attack is not precise enough for street-level tracking, it can provide enough data to infer what geographic region a person lives in and monitor their movements.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s finding is particularly concerning for people who are highly concerned about their privacy, like journalists, activists, dissidents, and even cybercriminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A security researcher discovered a flaw in Cloudflare\u2019s content delivery network (CDN), which could expose a person\u2019s general location by simply sending them an image on platforms like Signal and Discord. While the geo-locating capability of the attack is not precise enough for street-level tracking, it can provide enough data to infer what geographic region [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}