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[–] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (4 children)

I saw a quote from a group that tracks a lot of the suckers saying there was a very large drop in sppecifically botnet activity from Russia, but not because Yandex was hosting a hive directly rather as a momentary disruption of infrastructure such as banks and internet gateways.

Still, they're a relatively small portion of the pie. Gotta celebrate small victories, though.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    yeah, bots are rarely from one location. they are modular and use components from pre-existant infrastructure, like hacked routers or phones of unsuspecting victims, DNS, darknet and regular website hosting as control network or payload hosting. destroying a datacenter can affect parts of that and sever the connection between the controller and the end points, but both sides will usually try to reconnect.

    if glorious Ukraine will keep hitting them tho, their attempts to reconnect will be futile and the russian invaders may be left without any internet connection at all.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)
  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    Yes! No need to limit it on Russian ones, hit all data centers!

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I've worked with IT infrastructure for a decade, I know exactly what I said

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Somewhere, a Russian is cut off from YandexGPT and touching grass.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Guess you don't enjoy online shopping. (I do. Especially for heavy stuff idk how to get home and ordering food.)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I do, but I also see how it affects local smaller shops, so I've started to reduce it despite often costing me more

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    For me, the shipping costs make it actually more expensive to shop online (when it's "free" they are just pre-mixed into the price of the goods), but no way I'm hauling that stuff I usually order home by myself.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago

    For me it's usually either because I'm feeling lazy or because it's something very specialised that's hard to source locally

    For example I wanted a new cycling helmet, and the only satisfactory helmet I found in local shop was ~200eur. I could have ordered online instead and found something in sale for maybe 100eur instead, if I just waited for a week for delivery

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