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Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data hubs in the Vladimir region caused a major drop in Russian bot traffic, with Cloudflare metrics showing the impact after three attacks in four days disabled 3 of 4 primary data hubs and 78% of Yandex Cloud's network, disrupting over 80 services including Yandex Taxi, Yandex Food, and Yandex Pay. Yandex has added drone attacks to its force majeure events to shield itself from contractual liabilities, while shares fell as much as 4.2% in early October as analysts questioned the vulnerability of Russia's digital backbone.
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- SOURCE@osinttechnical“ru-central1-a suffering a complete power failure”x.com
- SOURCE@reuters“Russia's Yandex says data centre in Vladimir area shut down after drone attack”x.com
- SUPPORT@osinttechnical“78% of Yandex Cloud’s network stopped responding to outside connections”x.com
- SUPPORT@yarotrof“strike the third Yandex data center in a row, causing widespread service disruption, especially to the Yandex Taxi”x.com
- SUPPORT@lukolejnik“lost two of its availability zones. Each strike took out another layer of backup”x.com
- SUPPORT@mbohnert“dominant search engine and ride-hailing platform, a distant third in e-commerce”x.com
- SUPPORT@jamiedupree“Cloudflare data shows Russian bot traffic dropping dramatically”x.com
- SUPPORT@rwapodcast“bot traffic just means people disagreeing with them on twitter”x.com