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Yandex traffic analysis finds malicious automation moved to other providers

blog.cloudflare.com 7 min read Editor score 6/10

Traffic analysis found Yandex Search’s drop came mostly from verified crawlers, while malicious activity shifted to other hosting providers. It shows why traffic declines at one provider do not necessarily mean automated abuse has stopped.

What

• Yandex traffic analysis examined how reported strikes affected search and cloud network traffic and bot activity.

How

• Search traffic drops were mostly verified crawlers; high-volume automation on Yandex.Cloud migrated to other hosting providers.

Why it matters

• Overall traffic drops can hide where malicious automation moves, so engineers need to analyze request behavior, not just traffic totals.

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