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Russian disinformation bot traffic survives Ukraine strike on Yandex
Original: Tom's Hardware - Article "Malicious Russian disinformation bot traffic barely flinches after Ukraine strikes Yandex data
Ukraine struck Yandex data centers, but Cloudflare researchers report the disruption had little lasting effect on Russian disinformation bot operations. Roughly 170 million automated attacks were tracked automatically migrating to alternate cloud hosting providers, keeping the bot networks running. The episode highlights how resilient automated disinformation infrastructure has become, with failover systems allowing campaigns to continue despite direct physical attacks on the servers hosting them.
Why now: The strike was expected to disrupt Russian bot networks, so evidence of rapid auto-migration shows disinformation infrastructure is far more resilient than assumed.
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- Tom's Hardware - Article "Malicious Russian disinformation bot traffic barely flinches after Ukraine strikes Yandex data centers and auto-migration kicks in — Cloudflare tracks 170 million automated attacks shifting to alternate cloud hosts | Tom's Hardware"... https://www.… · marc_pare@m.parentreprise.com · 1
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