Yandex outage data shows malicious bots moved rather than went dark
coloneltcb · hn · 2026-10-15
Cloudflare's blog post analyzes traffic data during the Yandex outage and finds that malicious bots didn't disappear with the service — they simply moved to other targets. A useful look at how bot operators dynamically reroute, implying that any single service going dark does little to reduce overall malicious traffic.
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