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Ukraine Hits Yandex Data Centers a Third Time, Igniting a Russian Bot-Traffic DebateTechnical commentators dispute the bot-traffic interpretation
6 Oct 11 8:00 AM · 3d ago · 43 articles · 74 posts · 33 comments · 7 sources · development 6 of 8
Hacker News users and others argued the Cloudflare chart measures Yandex's own search-crawler traffic from its network, not social-media disinformation bots, which do not run from Russian datacenter IP ranges.
“No one runs opinion/malicious bots from data center IPs that people mention here. Did people actually stop thinking?”
f311aYandex Russian technology company, "Russia's Google"NetBlocks Internet monitoring organizationCloudflare Internet infrastructure company whose data fueled the viral claimVolodymyr Zelensky / Ukraine Conducting the drone strike campaign
Donald Trump Referenced as having issued a warning
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Ukraine hits another Yandex data center in Russia and Cloudflare data shows Russian bot traffic dropping dramatically. Might have an impact right before the November elections.
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Have you thought to yourself, “Gee wilikers, it sure has been quiet on the eastern front, and the # GOP bot farms”, well sir, you can thank # Ukraine for that. The GOP # botfarms being operated out of # Russia have been tagged and tagged hard by the Ukrainians. Now is a good time to tell who the bots are. https://www…
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Ukraine Strikes Russian Data Centers, Sending Millions of Suspected Russian Bot Accounts Offline Across Social Media
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What? Comparing Iranian to Israeli online influence is absurd when you look at the financials. Israel recently quintupled its state PR and digital diplomacy budget to 730 million USD. Iran's global propaganda budget is estimated at slightly over 100 million USD. Second, your dismissal of STOIC conveniently leaves out the most important detail…
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The HTTP traffic from Yandex is down to ~ 0 % after the third strike, after the first two strikes already degraded it. I wonder how this looks like at the network level because their search page still serves, but presumably their crawler is inactive nowEdit: Here is some more info, they do have availability issues as is to be expected> Because…
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Russian bot traffic has plummeted after Ukrainian drone strikes knocked out Russian tech giant @Yandex’s biggest data centers. @Cloudflare reports that bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded over the past two
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It's nice to see empirical evidence of the impact of Russian bots. https://www. tomshardware.com/tech-industry /data-centers/russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-nearly-eliminated-overnight-after-ukraine-drone-strikes-cripple-multiple-of-russias-google-data-centers-ukraine-intensifies-bombing-of-yandex-data-centers-in-response-to-moscows-strikes-on-k…
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@cnbc.com Russia’s internet giant Yandex halts operations at major data center after drone attack @reuters.com Yandex will not be able to restore its data centers until at least 2028
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I think Russia invaded originally because taking Crimea gave them access to the Mediterranean Sea. War is almost always about resources. Governments don't really give a shit about the type of government other countries have. At least not enough to go to war over it. Even wars where people like to make it fascist vs communist vs democracy like WWII…
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*Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic from AS13238 YANDEX — Yandex LLCUPD Definition of bot traffic from Cloudflare's glossary:>Bot vs. human traffic>The percentage of HTTP requests classified as bot versus human, based on bot scores. Requests with a bot score between 1 and 29 are classified as likely automated (bot), while requests with a score…
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Big story developing in Russia today. Ukraine hit Yandex really hard. The loss of 4 yandex data centers means Russia drones lose realtime data, businesses lose customer data, cloud storage disappears. It’s a huge disruption across Russia, and Belarus. Late reports are Yandex
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Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia RE:
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Putin keeps experiencing the Finding out portion of F*cking around by invading his neighbor country.
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It's a fight for survival. The fuck do you expect is going to happen? Guess what, if they don't do that, they get captured by Russians. Those women you apparently care so dearly for, the ones you say "are left to fend for themselves"? They will be beaten, sold, raped, killed. The children will be given the same treatment, often raped and forced to…
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Someone needs to learn how to read the Bot Traffic page.That is a drop in traffic specifically from Yandex bots (which includes their crawlers and other apps hosted in their DC)Now compare it with Bot Traffic in:* Russia: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/ru?dateRange=7d* Europe: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/europe?dateRange=7d* Worldwide…
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Ukrainian drones struck three Yandex data centres in Russia, shutting down two and crippling the third. The attacks disrupted more than 80 services, including banking, transport and cloud infrastructure, following Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centres.
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Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers Russia's Yandex bot traffic was nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers https://www. tomshardware.com/tech-industry…
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Can anyone confirm whether Ukraine’s disruption of a Russian AI data center correlated with a significant drop in X/Twitter activity, presumably due to disruption of Russian bot accounts?
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Quoting that page: Bottom line: No drop. In the three days after the strikes, r/Conservative ran at 104.8% of its normal comment volume and 86.5% of its normal number of distinct commenting accounts, and the share of regular accounts that went quiet (16.3%) is inside the range seen on ordinary weeks (20.4%, 20.3%, 19%). I'm pretty sure u/NukinDuke…
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Isn't this showing the percentage of bot traffic from the Yandex IP range?If so, it isn't particularly surprising that the line would go down.EDIT: yes, it is. Looking at the same graph for all of Russia, and there's no discernible pattern:https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/ru?dateRange=7dsame for the 48h view:
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▸ UPDATE: Yandex Disk is now eating user data. After the strikes on their data centers, users across Russia report mass failures in cloud storage. Files are inaccessible. Some are gone entirely. The company added drone attacks to its force majeure list on October 9. Now the
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So this one datacenter in Russia got bombed by Ukraine and caused a Yandex outage. And I have seen people posting data-backed analyses showing this has resulted in a drop in net traffic from certain scraper bot networks; and I've seen people making *jokes* that this will show up in drops of coordinated inauthentic activity on websites such as "X"…
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🟥 Russia’s Yandex confirms data centre shutdown after drone attack 📍 Russia Source: Al Jazeera Live: warheatmap.app
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I took a look at the sub just now to see if traffic really is down. Maybe a little but it’s hard to tell. Anyway, what I did actually notice is criticism of the things trump is doing somehow which surprised me. Someone even got mass downvoted for glorifying the public execution I guess those people are late to figuring out MAGAs true colors but…
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