r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 18h ago

Society Ukraine Struck Yandex Data Centers, Russian Bots Went Silent—Now Questions Are Mounting

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-struck-yandex-data-centers-russian-bots-went-silent-now-questions-are-mounting-23339
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u/no1_vern 16h ago

The Cloudflare 'bot traffic' report is showing that nothing much has changed.

It's the number of 'human HTTP requests' has been greatly reduced, not so much the 'bot traffic.

  1. The graph only shows traffic from Yandex. You know, the company that got hit by bombs.
  2. All traffic from Yandex is down, not just bots. Implying that it's only bot traffic is misleading.
  3. The "bot traffic" in question is just automated requests, not social media/hacking bot farms as the title implies.
  4. If measuring Russian bot traffic in general, Yandex being down has almost no impact, as others have pointed out already. So "Russian Bot Traffic drops to near 0 after strike" is just objectively wrong.
  5. Even the linked Reuters story is wrong, because Yandex has now been hit three times, not twice.https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1x38uhd/russian_bot_traffic_drops_to_near_0_after_strike/pf93p27/

From a Reddit SysAdmin thread.

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u/JohnnySmithe81 14h ago

Thanks for numbers. I'm getting real sick of this being posted everywhere with it being taken as fact without any data.

The news article just talks about automated http requests from Yandex, there are going to be many legitimate automated http requests, you can't just say they're all social media bots.

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u/camosnipe1 10h ago

I'm getting real sick of this being posted everywhere with it being taken as fact without any data.

ironically, the bots are out in force today spreading the news of their supposed death.

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u/WellHung67 13h ago

We already know Russia pays people to influence elections. It might be very real humans doing some of the posting. The internet research agency pays good money to do this. So yeah it makes sense.

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u/neuronexmachina 2h ago

Thank you. There's potentially ways to show that there's been a drop in Russian social-media bot traffic, but that Cloudflare chart of Yandex people keep on posting isn't it.