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Russian bot traffic migrates to new hosts after Yandex data center strikes · Cloudflare tracks

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Cloudflare reports that malicious Russian bot traffic has largely shifted to alternative cloud hosting providers following Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centers. While Yandex.Cloud experienced a significant drop in malicious activity, overall bot traffic targeting various sectors remained relatively stable, indicating easy migration of operations to other networks like Radist and Selectel. This highlights the challenge of combating automated threats, as operators can quickly move their workloads to different providers when infrastructure is disrupted. AI

IMPACT Highlights the resilience of bot networks and the difficulty in disrupting automated threats through infrastructure attacks.

RANK_REASON Analysis of bot traffic migration patterns following infrastructure attacks, not a direct release or significant industry event.

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Russian bot traffic migrates to new hosts after Yandex data center strikes · Cloudflare tracks

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COVERAGE [1]

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

    Malicious Russian disinformation bot traffic barely flinches after Ukraine strikes Yandex data centers and auto-migration kicks in

    Ukraine's strikes on Russian data centers have caused legitimate bot traffic to go down, but malicious bots remain operational.

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