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

Following reported Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers in Russia that caused near-total network collapse, claims circulated that Russian bot farms and influence operations had been knocked offline. However, analysis of traffic data reveals that while malicious activities like vulnerability scanning declined on Yandex's cloud services, high-volume automated attacks did not disappear—they simply migrated to other hosting providers. The outage primarily disrupted legitimate search crawler traffic rather than causing lasting damage to malicious bot infrastructure.