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Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move

Updated 14 October 2026

When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks.

Source: Cloudflare Blog. Headline and summary © the original publisher; read the full story at the link.

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