News story from Oct 9, they hit 3rd since then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50040547

*Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic from AS13238 YANDEX — Yandex LLC

UPD Definition of bot traffic from Cloudflare's glossary:

>Bot vs. human traffic

>The percentage of HTTP requests classified as bot versus human, based on bot scores. Requests with a bot score between 1 and 29 are classified as likely automated (bot), while requests with a score of 30 or above are classified as likely human. For more information, refer to Bot classes.

>By default, Radar shows bot vs. human traffic for requests to HTML content. This filter is meant to represent traditional web traffic by excluding API calls, asset requests (images, scripts, fonts), and other machine-to-machine requests.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/radar/glossary/#bot-vs-hum...

https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot-score/

Correct, I probably didn't didn't write that in the clearest possible way, I meant "detected bot traffic hitting cloudflare originating from Yandex".

BBC story linked to this chart which is pretty interesting:

>Internet Connectivity for AS200350 (YandexCloud)

https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/asn/200350?from=1791331...

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008565 (223 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019860 (43 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50038383 (103 comments)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008565 (223 comments)

One of the sources:

>Scottish independence accounts go dark after Iran internet blackout

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/12/scottish-ind...

Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956290

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960084 (277 comments)

Don't be fixated on the "tube" thing; it's at the rumour-level certainty at this point (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960955).

On the other hand "Baikal People" post from today is more worrying, as it says they quarantined 4 hospitals for 3 weeks: https://t.me/Baikal_People/16651

Man, you started an off-topic subthread which, at the moment, contains 100 out of the 165 total comments.

Because people who spewed all manner of vitriol on pretenses that now with hindsight should have been visible as shaky at the time would rather bicker trying to justify it than examine how they could've done that.