4 days ago · Russia
The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. The Verge is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Russia. The first report grouped here was at 12 Oct 2026, 15:43 UTC. The headline in use is “The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet - but in reality it's probably not the kind of bot activity most people associate with Russia. A chart citing Cloudflare data has been circulating around social media…
Story timeline
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- First reported by The Verge
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- The Verge