A Small Bit of Good News From the War: Russian Bot Traffic Takes a Hit
Cloudflare said automated web requests from Yandex networks fell about 99% after the strikes, while most Yandex services remained offline.
- 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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The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots
Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet - but in reality it's probably not the kind of bot activity most people associate with Russia. A chart citing Cloudflare data has been circulating around social media platforms, showing a sharp decline […]
At the same time as the raids of Ukrainian drones against the data centers of Russian technology giant Yandex there is a decline in traffic of all automated online activities, including disinformation related to extreme right-wing European and American environments. For Czech MEP Zdehovsky the link between Yandex servers and Russian disinformation in Europe is evident
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that after Ukrainian responses on the data centers of the Russian company Yandex on social networks, there were fewer bots, provocations and hostility.
American journalist and MAGA influencer Laura Lumer called on Americans to thank Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky for attacks on Russia
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