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

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

Cloudflare Blog · Official source · Oct 14, 2026, 8:24 PM UTC

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.