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Ukraine drone strikes cripple Yandex data centers, slashing Russian bot traffic

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Ukraine has significantly disrupted Russian bot traffic by targeting Yandex data centers with drone strikes. These attacks, seemingly in retaliation for Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centers, have led to a dramatic reduction in bot activity originating from Yandex's network. The crippled data centers have impacted Yandex Cloud services, affecting internet access for many Russians. AI

IMPACT Disruption of bot traffic may impact AI-driven disinformation campaigns originating from Russia.

RANK_REASON Drone strikes on critical civilian infrastructure (data centers) impacting a major national internet provider and disrupting bot traffic. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=2 ai=0.4]

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Ukraine drone strikes cripple Yandex data centers, slashing Russian bot traffic

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Drone strikes on critical civilian infrastructure (data centers) impacting a major national internet provider and disrupting bot traffic. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=2 ai=0.4]
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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Jowi Morales ·

    Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers

    Russian bot traffic falls dramatically as Ukraine takes out several Yandex data centers.

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Russia's disinformation bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensi

    Russia's disinformation bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers https://www. tomshardware.com/t…

    LINKS tomshardware.com/…/russian-disinformation… tomshardware.com/tech-industry

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