Cloudflare reports sudden bot traffic decline after Yandex data center attack

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Cloudflare observed a significant drop in bot traffic originating from Yandex's AS13238 network on October 29, 2024. The decline followed a reported military strike on a Yandex data center in Ukraine. Traffic levels fell from an average of 3.5 billion daily bot requests to under 1 billion. This suggests the data center was a major source of automated traffic for Yandex services. The incident highlights how infrastructure disruptions can impact global network patterns.

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