Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move
- Cloudflare: 395 events in the last 90 days
- Cloudflare: 91th Outage in the last 90 days
- 74 min of downtime across the earlier ones
- Previous: 27 days earlier · Increased HTTP Errors in GIG (Rio de Janeiro)
What happened
Following reported strikes on Yandex data centers, claims circulated on the Internet that Russian bot farms and influence operations had been knocked offline. HTTP traffic charts showed steep drops, fueling speculation that the infrastructure damage had stopped these malicious actors. However, aggregate traffic metrics can easily mislead. There are two autonomous system numbers ( ASNs ) associated with Yandex: AS132…
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Why it's spreading
Timeline
- First appeared on Cloudflare BlogCloudflare Blog
- Discussion started on Hacker NewsHacker News