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@knurd42@social.linux.pizza
2026-10-15 04:41:56

""Following reported strikes on #Yandex data centers, claims circulated on the Internet that Russian bot farms and influence operations had been knocked offline. […] However, aggregate traffic metrics can easily mislead. […] we analyzed how these two ASNs were affected — and while both saw drops in traffic, they saw differing impact.
Yandex Search (AS13238): The drop in tr…

Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move
When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks.

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-10-11 20:26:02

It's nice to see empirical evidence of the impact of Russian bots.
#russia #bots #datacenters #ukraine #yandex

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