Ars Technica details cascading outages across Russian digital services
4Oct 12 1:52 PM · 1d ago · 5 articles · 10 posts · 5 sources · development 4 of 5
Reporting confirms the three strikes caused interruptions to Russian payment apps, digital banking, email, e-commerce, streaming, ride-hailing, food delivery, and navigation services, with Yandex's search engine holding roughly 70 percent market share in Russia and its cloud arm serving major retail chains.
I'm sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but as of now, there is no solid evidence that Russian bot farms have become inactive due to the Yandex data centre strikes. The Cloudflare charts mostly show activity related to web crawlers, which have little to do with automated posting
With reports showing massive drops in automated social media manipulation following physical targeted strikes on Russian server hubs, the link between foreign IT infrastructure and Western election disruption is undeniable. Securing democratic resilience demands action. # FBPE https://www. euronews.com/2026/10/12/did-uk…
Bot fiasco aside, the data center strikes have considerable down side for russian businesses. There is no easy fix (silver lining of world wide AI craze) and russias choice to do strict sovereignty over resilience. RE:
Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers? | The Verge https://www. theverge.com/tech/1009443/yand ex-russian-bots-cloudflare
Volodymyr Zelenskyy President of UkraineChrisO_wiki Pseudonymous independent researcherRatio Militaris Pro-Kremlin Russian milbloggerYandex Russian tech giant, 'Russia's Google'E
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