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Cloudflare data: Russian bot traffic didn't vanish after Yandex strikes, it moved

Cloudflare publishes analysis refuting the bot-collapse narrative

1 Oct 14 4:30 AM · 3d ago · 1 article · 1 source · development 1 of 2

Cloudflare's blog post, using Radar and Bot Management data, finds that Yandex Search's crawler traffic (93.6% Verified bots) collapsed, but Yandex.Cloud's unverified, app-like bot traffic showed no evidence of a global disruption to malicious activity.

Cloudflare publishes analysis refuting the bot-collapse narrative
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“across Cloudflare's network, there was no evidence that the strikes knocked social media manipulation offline or otherwise disrupted malicious activity on the Internet”

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Cloudflare Internet infrastructure company / analysis authorMarina Elmore Co-author of Cloudflare blog postLai Yi Ohlsen Co-author of Cloudflare blog postYandex Russian tech company whose data centers were struck

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