Russian Bot Traffic Decimated Overnight After Ukraine Drone Strikes Knock Multiple Yandex Data Centers Offline
Cloudflare Radar data showed automated requests from Yandex’s network fell to about 0.4% of recent peak levels after the strikes, researchers said.
- Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week targeted Yandex-operated data centers in Russia, with Cloudflare Radar reporting a sharp decline in automated bot traffic from the company's network.
- These attacks followed an intensification of Russian strikes on Ukrainian digital infrastructure, including telecommunications providers that disrupted services for businesses, government systems, and ordinary families.
- Some reports cite Cloudflare data indicating automated web requests fell by roughly 99%, though viral charts shared by European Parliament member Zdechovsk alleging the decline impacted the AfD have faced scrutiny.
- Computer scientist Raphael Wimmer suspects the diagram shared by Zdechovsk is AI-generated, noting inconsistencies including a data point logged for October 15th, a future date.
- Yandex Fintech head Dima Pirogov stated the company cannot provide a precise restoration timeline for services like Yandex Pay, though it promises to restore them.
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Ukrainian attacks on Russian Yandex data centers have disrupted services for Russian users. Some commentators and politicians on social media have said they have noticed that the attacks may have also affected so-called bot farms, with fake user accounts and activity reportedly dropping significantly. However, Lithuanian experts say the data does not indicate that the Ukrainian attacks have disrupted bot networks in Lithuania.
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