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.
  • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Malicious automation migrated instead of stopping. While vulnerability scanning and plugin probing temporarily dropped on Yandex.Cloud, high-volume operations quickly moved to alternative hosting networks.

    Cloud workloads are portable, so when a data center goes dark or an IP prefix gets blocked, operators can migrate their scripts to another provider in hours.

    So, effects would have had been
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