GoKawiilCloudflare: Russian bot networks shifted to new hosts after Yandex data center strikes
Cloudflare's analysis found that after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centers cut Yandex Search and Yandex.Cloud traffic to 10-15% of normal levels, malicious bot activity largely migrated to other hosting providers such as Radist and Selectel rather than disappearing. Gambling-sector bot traffic rose slightly overall (167.7 million to 170.1 million requests, +1.4%), and Russian-origin social media bot activity fell only marginally, by 0.6% to 5.7% depending on the metric.
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The findings suggest that physical infrastructure strikes alone may not meaningfully disrupt coordinated bot operations, since automation can be rerouted to alternate cloud providers with little friction. Cloudflare's data, limited to traffic passing through its own network, indicates that disrupting disinformation or fraud networks may require targeting the operators and accounts themselves rather than just the hosting infrastructure they currently use.
- Yandex Search and Yandex.Cloud traffic remains at 10-15% of normal levels post-strikes.
- Malicious bots largely migrated to providers like Radist and Selectel instead of disappearing.
- Russian bot traffic targeting gambling and social media platforms stayed nearly flat overall.
Source: tomshardware.com — Jowi Morales, 2026-10-15
Published there as: “Malicious Russian disinformation bot traffic barely flinches after Ukraine strikes Yandex data centers and auto-migration kicks in”
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