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Cloudflare Quick Tunnel Used for Malicious Payload Staging

August 4, 2026

Attackers in the SMOKE#SCREEN campaign used Cloudflare Quick Tunnel to expose a staging server temporarily, leveraging a service that is rarely monitored. The server runs cloudflared.exe to generate ephemeral tunnels for C2 and payload delivery.