Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved

Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move Marina Elmore and Lai Yi Ohlsen Following reported strikes on Yandex data centers, claims circulated on the Internet that Russian bot farms and influence operations had been knocked offline. HTTP traffic charts showed steep drops, fueling speculation that the infrastructure damage had stopped these malicious ac...