Yandex Cloud outage causes service disruption and persistent malicious bots
Problem
Yandex Cloud outage disrupts critical services and leaves malicious bot activity unchecked, raising concerns about reliance on a single provider and inadequate security monitoring.
Pain points
- Single point of dependency causing service disruption
- Malicious bot activity remains active
- Lack of effective traffic anomaly detection and defense tools
Questions to verify
- Would enterprises be willing to pay for more reliable cloud services or security monitoring solutions?
- Is there a need for automatic failover or disaster recovery solutions for single points of failure?
- How satisfied are users with existing traffic anomaly detection tools?
Evidence
quote · @Anonymous
across Cloudflare's network, there was no evidence that the strikes knocked social media manipulation offline or otherwise disrupted malicious activity on the Internet.
quote · @Anonymous
Russian government has encouraged adoption of digital services and centralization of them into a small number of handpicked "winners", who form the backbone of state surveillance system. This made the modern infrastructure a very attractive target.
quote · @Anonymous
Just anecdotally I still see as many bots as always. Embrace the bots, have fun with them.
quote · @Anonymous
Does anyone have the numbers on social media participation? I don't think anyone thought that their ability to execute media influencing activities was completely shutdown, but it did seem that social media was a lot quieter for a time.
quote · @Anonymous
What I’m far more interested in is what the consequences of Yandex cloud being offline are. I feel like if us-east-1 was down for a week we’d see all kinds of consequences in everyday services. Are Russians enjoying the same?
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