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Cloudflare data shows Yandex outage shifted malicious bot traffic
Original: Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved
New analysis of the Yandex outage suggests the incident did not take large amounts of traffic offline. Instead, Cloudflare's data indicates malicious bots that had been concentrated on Yandex redirected their activity elsewhere, meaning botnet operators adapted quickly rather than disappearing. Commenters are debating what this reveals about how much bot traffic rides on major platforms and how resilient such operations are.
Why now: The finding challenges the assumption that a major outage removes bot traffic, sparking technical discussion.
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- Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved · coloneltcb · 286
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