I Built a ClamAV Scanner Bridge. A “Hacker” Was Kind Enough to Test It.

Every piece of security infrastructure needs a real-world test. Unit tests are fine. Staging environments are fine. But nothing validates your upload scanning pipeline quite like an actual threat actor uploading a PHP webshell to your server while you’re mid-development. Allow us to introduce our tester: ~XBumbbleB33~. The Setup For context: CFM is our homegrown … Read more

CFM Web Detector: Challenge Engine — a Major Step Toward Hosting-Grade HTTP Mitigation

CFM (Configurable Firewall Manager) started as a modern nftables-first firewall manager designed for high-security hosting and infrastructure operators. Over time, it evolved into a complete security platform: dynamic firewalling, log-driven detection, autoblocking, system hardening, notifications, DNS/GeoIP enrichment, and API integration. After introducing the Unified Web Detector (real-time vhost analytics and suspicious scoring), the next obvious … Read more

Introducing the New CFM Web Detector

A Production-Grade, ML-Ready Traffic Analytics & Abuse-Detection Engine for Nginx, Apache & LiteSpeed CFM (Configurable Firewall Manager) started as a modern nftables-first firewall manager designed for high-security hosting and infrastructure operators.Over time, it evolved into a complete security platform: dynamic firewalling, live log-driven detection, autoblocking, system hardening, notifications, DNS/GeoIP enrichment, and API integration. Today, CFM … Read more

CFM: A Modern Firewall and Intrusion Detection Manager Built for the Post-CSF Era

When CSF (ConfigServer Firewall) announced it was closing, it left a big hole in the Linux hosting world.CSF had been the de-facto standard for years — a reliable mix of iptables, Perl scripts, and clever wrappers that kept countless servers secure. But for those of us who’ve been running modern systems, one question was already … Read more