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Yandex Outage and Bot Traffic Migration
Cloudflare data reveals that malicious bot traffic shifted to other targets rather than disappearing after a Yandex outage, illustrating the adaptability of bot networks.
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Data from Cloudflare shows that following a Yandex outage, malicious bot traffic did not disappear but instead migrated elsewhere rather than going dark (Cloudflare Blog, October 14). This finding offers insight into the resilience and adaptability of bot networks and has implications for understanding infrastructure dependency and malicious traffic patterns tied to major search engine or internet infrastructure providers like Yandex.