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Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move (blog.cloudflare.com)
submitted 6 hours ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 10 minutes ago

they came back already, it was only a matter of time before the troll farms use other servers.

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    [–] 21 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    You’d think that all these firewalls in the U.S. could block Russian traffic.

    Weird. Almost like Russia isn’t a national security issue, but filming movies in Canada is.

    Weird…

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  • [–] 6 points 2 hours ago*

    You’d think that all these firewalls in the U.S. could block Russian traffic.

    You'd think people would figure out that's why they use western VPSs and residential connections to have the bots post the things they want posted.

    Russia isn’t a national security issue

    Russia most certainly is a national security issue.

    I think more of our threats come from inside the house, as it were, but do not think for a moment that Russia is not a threat.

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    • [–] 5 points 3 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
    2026-oct-11 from ~6h00 TO 12h00 UTC ?

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