Overview
- Yandex confirmed that a drone attack on Sunday damaged a data center in the Vladimir region and that its platform is running in emergency mode with at least one facility fully offline.
- This hit is the third strike on Yandex infrastructure within days and followed earlier attacks on sites in Ryazan and Kaluga that already caused service outages.
- Monitoring firms recorded sharp drops in Yandex connectivity and an abrupt fall in bot-related internet traffic after the strikes, with bot traffic partially rebounding by evening.
- Reuters and other outlets report that two of Yandex’s three AI supercomputers were taken out of service after recent attacks, complicating recovery because sanctions limit access to replacement hardware.
- Russia has also struck Ukrainian data centers and security agencies warn that repeated physical attacks on high-value data centers can produce wide social and economic knock-on effects, including disrupted payments, transport and business services.