Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved

	Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved(blog.cloudflare.com)
	279 points by coloneltcb 1 day ago \| 117 comments
	tl;dr: After Ukrainian drone strikes knocked Yandex data centers offline, Cloudflare data showed the traffic drop on Yandex Search (AS13238) was mostly legitimate crawler activity, while malicious automation on Yandex.Cloud (AS200350) didn't disappear—it migrated to other Russian hosts like Radist and Selectel within hours, preserving identical JA4 fingerprints, headers, and User-Agents. Russian bot traffic to targeted gambling accounts stayed flat (+1.4%), and social media manipulation showed no meaningful disruption, underscoring that ASN-level traffic volume is a poor proxy for measuring botnet impact.
	HN Discussion: ↑Article refutes the viral meme that Russian trolls went offline after strikes ~Social media did seem quieter, suggesting some real disruption worth investigating ↓Cloudflare itself is an untrustworthy censorship entity, undermining its data ~Real story is impact on Russian digital infrastructure and state surveillance, not bots ↑This case illustrates how misinformation and propaganda spread faster than corrections