Drone attack on data centers in Russia eliminates Russian bot activity

These attacks have meant a drop in Russian bot activitywhich have even caused a decrease in the online activity of AfD and Maga, even Trump now has fewer followers on social networks and the likes of Elon Musk himself there are many fewer in their own Tweets. The attacks have not only managed to limit services in various parts of the country, but have also eliminated these annoying bot farms. Cloudflare figures put the activity of these Russian bots at just 0.4% of typical traffic.

Ukraine attacks Yandex data centers, affecting Russian cloud services

Specifically, the Ukrainian drones attacked Yandex data centers in Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir. This has managed to knock out the first two data centers mentioned and make activity difficult in the third. Consequently, the cloud services of many companies in Russiaalong with transportation and banking services were altered. An attack that seems to be a response to similar events from Russia to data centers in Ukraine that have previously taken place, leaving up to 8 of these without service.

Yandex Cloud, MegaFon and T-Bank, among the services affected by the attacks

Companies like Yandex Cloudwhich include the Russian web search engine Yandex, have been affected, in addition to the Russian railway network along with the telephone operator MegaFonthe advertisement portal Avito either T-Bank They suffered falls between October 8 and 11. Reason why the company fell more than one 3% on the Moscow Stock Exchange during the morning of October 8 and increased up to 4% more after other incidents.

As we see, the drones They can be a device for leisure and assistance in different professional tasks, but they can also be a powerful weapon as we have seen with these attacks between Russia and Ukraine.