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Researchers Find Yandex Strikes Didn’t Silence Russian Bots
Researchers examining a viral Cloudflare chart used to claim that Ukrainian strikes on Yandex silenced Russian propaganda bots found that the chart actually tracked search crawler traffic, not bot activity. Analysis reveals no evidence that the political communities attributed to these bots went quiet in the weeks before the U.S. midterms.
Why it matters: Security practitioners and threat researchers should be cautious about threat intelligence derived from incomplete data visualization; this finding highlights the risk of misinterpreting network traffic patterns when attributing influence operations to specific disruption events.
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