Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move
Summary
Cloudflare analyzes the Yandex outage using Radar and Bot Management data, showing that malicious automation did not vanish but migrated to other providers. The drop in Yandex Search was due to verified crawlers, while Yandex.Cloud traffic fell but attackers shifted to alternate hosts, illustrating the importance of behavior-based defense over ASN-level metrics.