Drone attack takes another Yandex data center offline

Drone Strikes Knock Out Yandex Data Centers, Bot Traffic Plunges but Partly Recovers

Drone attacks hit three Yandex data centers, and bot traffic from its network dropped sharply. Public data shows a partial rebound and includes search crawlers, limiting what can be inferred. We look at cloud recovery capacity and the impact on corporate paperwork.

What is happening to our data centers, the iron heart of Yandex

On the night of October 7th to 8th, the Yandex data center in Sasovo was seriously damaged in a drone attack. It has been completely shut down. This morning, another of our data centers, in Kaluga, was attacked. Part of its infrastructure is out of service. No employees were hurt in either Sasovo or Kaluga. Emergency services and our specialists are now working on site.

Russia’s Yandex Says Data Center in Vladimir Shut Down After Drone Attack

Russian technology and AI company Yandex said on Sunday that its infrastructure had been damaged in a drone attack, resulting in the complete shutdown of its data center in the Vladimir region.

Drone attack forces Yandex to shut down its data center on the grounds of a sanctioned Russian machine-tool plant

In Bashkortostan, Ukraine's General Staff says its forces hit a Gazprom refinery. Salavat's mayor says an unnamed enterprise there keeps working.

Ukrainian drones hit three of Russian tech giant Yandex’s data centers in four days. Ukraine’s president says the bots thinned out too

Lithuania’s prime minister wants more such strikes to protect elections. Researchers say the bot data shows Yandex’s web crawlers, not trolls.

Yandex crawler traffic drops 94% after drone strikes on 3 data centers

YandexBot requests on Cloudflare Radar fell to near zero on October 11 as a Vladimir site shut. Did bots on X and Reddit vanish too? Available data cannot say.

Ukrainian attacks damage three Yandex data centres and disrupt services across Russia

A Ukrainian attack damaged Yandex’s data centre in Vladimir early on 11 October, halting operations and disrupting services in several Russian regions.

After strikes on Yandex data centers, social media users began talking about the disappearance of AfD and MAGA bots. | Межа

Three Yandex data centers stopped operating after strikes, and the company’s network traffic plunged. The data do not confirm claims that political bot activity also fell.

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

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.

Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers

The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.

Yandex: Ukraine strikes data centre in third attack on Russian tech giant

It is the third time this week that Ukraine has targeted Russian tech giant Yandex, forcing the company to suspend its operations.

Yandex: Ukraine strikes data centre in third attack on Russian tech giant

It is the third time this week that Ukraine has targeted Russian tech giant Yandex, forcing the company to suspend its operations.

No, Ukraine's strikes on Yandex data centers didn't cripple Russian influence ops

Ukrainian drone strikes against Russian data centers sparked viral claims about a sudden drop in Russian influence operations on social media — even as experts see no evidence to support this. Kyiv struck data centers run by Yandex — Russia's "answer to Google" — in three different regions between Oct. 9 and 11, a response to Russian strikes against similar facilities in Ukraine. Yandex acknowledged the attacks, noting that its data center in Vladimir Oblast had to be shut down due to damage a

Yandex Bot Traffic Fell 99 Percent Overnight. Here's How to Measure and Block the AI Crawlers Hitting Your Own Server

Last weekend two of Yandex's five data centres were hit by Ukrainian drone strikes, according to...

Drones Hit Yandex so Cloudflare Kept the Russians Online

A Czech MEP posted a chart of AfD online activity with data points dated after he posted it, and it showed 232,000 views inside two hours. By Sunday night Frank Luntz, Garry Kasparov and Timothy Snyder were spreading the news: drones hit Yandex, and Russia’s bot armies went silent. The strikes are real, and the following bot silence reports beg a deeper analysis of what is being measured and how.