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

A recent Yandex outage was caused not by the company going dark, but rather by malicious bots moving in to exploit the situation. Cloudflare's data shows that during the outage, a surge in traffic from suspicious IP addresses was detected, with a sharp increase in traffic from known malicious IP addresses. The traffic was primarily from Russia and other countries in Eastern Europe. This suggests that malicious actors were taking advantage of the outage to launch attacks on Yandex's infrastructure.