Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yandex datacenter
Summary
Cloudflare reported a sudden drop in malicious bot traffic following a strike on a Yandex datacenter, suggesting the infrastructure was tied to large-scale botnet operations.
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