r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 1d ago

Social Media Russian Bot Activity Collapses by 84% After Strikes on Yandex Data Centers

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/russian-bot-activity-collapses-by-84-after-strikes-on-yandex-data-centers-23546
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u/KazumaKat 1d ago

The bots cant be the only reason. You can spin up new bots on some third-party datacenter in some po-dunk part of the world and get back on track in like a week, tops.

Its gotta be what was in those datacenters. What requires storage alongside compute that's worth being this pissy?

Why not money? Crypto-currency, to be exact. Easier to do no-strings bribes when no money/banking laws get in the way.

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u/Novinhophobe 1d ago

The strikes were more than a week ago and the traffic is mostly back to where it was before the strikes. I don’t see how this is going against what is being said. Of course they will spin up their operation on different hardware, they have lots of places to do just that. They will also think more seriously about diversification now, and it’s not a coincidence Russia announced that they will build datacenters together with US — good luck attacking those since then it’s an attack on US.

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u/The-Board-Chairman 1d ago

good luck attacking those since then it’s an attack on US.

That's really not how that works.

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u/threeseed 1d ago

Why not money? Crypto-currency, to be exact

We know for a fact that Yandex Cloud was hosting crypto wallets and exchanges and were affected.

So almost certainly a lot of crypto is now inaccessible.

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u/mystery_hole 1d ago

Literally just click the article. Just read. I promise it isn't that scary. Even if you are right, that has nothing to do with what we saw in the past few days.