
Cloudflare Data Shows Yandex Bot Drop, Not Russian Disinformation
Analysts clarify that recent drops in bot traffic from Russia reflect Yandex crawler outages, not a decline in state-sponsored disinformation campaigns.
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Analysts clarify that recent drops in bot traffic from Russia reflect Yandex crawler outages, not a decline in state-sponsored disinformation campaigns.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says disabling Yandex data centers reduced automated pro-Russian accounts on social platforms.

Drone strikes damaged three Russian data centers, forcing Yandex to halt operations at two sites and degrade a third, causing widespread service outages.

Drone attacks on Yandex facilities in Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir have disabled cloud and payment platforms for users.

Ukrainian drones hit a third Yandex facility, forcing shutdowns and causing widespread outages for cloud services and consumer platforms.

Cloudflare radar data shows a 99% decline in Yandex bot traffic following a reported data center attack, drawing attention on Hacker News.

A drone attack on a Yandex facility in Sasovo caused a major fire, taking down cloud infrastructure and threatening two key AI supercomputers.

Russian tech giant Yandex warns that its ru-central1-b cloud zone may not be restorable in the near future after a drone strike halted operations.

Analysis of recent network data highlights substantial automated request volumes originating from Yandex’s autonomous system, drawing attention from the security community.

A Ukrainian drone attack on a Yandex facility in Vladimir on Oct. 11 disabled a third data center, causing widespread outages for cloud and consumer apps.

Cloudflare data shows a sudden decrease in bot activity from AS13238 after a reported strike on a Yandex data center in Russia.

Ukraine’s drone attacks on Yandex facilities caused a dramatic drop in Russian bot activity, disrupting infrastructure linked to disinformation campaigns.

Drone attacks in Russia damaged a facility critical to Yandex’s artificial intelligence training infrastructure, disrupting operations.