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The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots

Global Published 12 October 2026, 20:43 · archived 12 Oct 2026

Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet - but in reality it's probably not the kind of bot activity most people associate with Russia. A chart citing Cloudflare data has been circulating around social media platforms, showing a sharp decline […]

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