Russia's Yandex says data centre in Vladimir area shut down after drone attack
- 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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Ukraine attacks three out of four large Ukrainian data centers. Since then, social networks have been accusing the claim that Russian bots are less active. We classify them.
Many observers claim that automated accounts relaying pro-Russian disinformation have since stopped. Unsubstantiated information so far based on false graphs or misinterpretations. - VERIF' - Attacks on data centers in Russia: has the activity of pro-Russian disinformation bots been reduced to nothing? (International).
Ukrainian drones paralyze data centers of the Russian IT group Yandex. Users of its services are frustrated – and even the Kremlin admits "difficulties."
Ukraine has targeted at least three major data centres owned by Yandex, the Russian web giant, in a week.
Three data centres of the Russian giant Yandex were hit by Ukrainian drones in a few days. A fall in automated online activity fueled suspicions of a blow to networks of influence...
Polish minister caught citing fake story about Russian bots’ demise after Ukrainian attack
Polish security coordinator Tomasz Siemoniak's claim of a decline in Russian bot activity following Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex has been challenged by fact-checkers as unfounded. Source
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