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Data Centers Are War Targets Now

Ukrainian drones struck Russian Yandex and Sberbank data centers, disrupting everyday digital services across Russia.

404 Media reports that Ukrainian drones struck Russian data centers, including a fourth attack in a week against a Sberbank facility after earlier hits on Yandex sites. President Zelenskyy confirmed strikes on data centers and oil refineries. Three Yandex strikes damaged supercomputers that housed some AI models, took two of the company's six Russian data centers offline, and disrupted email, cloud services, taxis, and commercial logistics. The article also cites Iran's March strikes on AWS facilities in Dubai and a legal researcher on dual-use targeting, proportionality, and civilian harm.

404 MediaOct 15, 13:00 UTC · 1d agoPolicy & legal 11 sources2· 1 read

Srsly Risky Biz: Russia's Digital Detox Boomerang

Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted Russian cloud, payments, and apps after Moscow hit Ukrainian sites.

Risky Business reports that Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted Russia's largest domestic digital platform after Moscow's conventional attacks on Ukrainian data centers and Kyivstar, which the Russian Ministry of Defense called a "digital detox." Yandex, which combines search, cloud, payments, maps, taxis, and delivery, saw three of its six largest centers hit; cloud customers and Yandex Pay users faced outages, while the company said funds remained safe but gave no restoration time. Russia's data-localization and sovereignty rules leave most capacity inside the country, and a Bremen University researcher said 95 percent of Russian data centers are within Ukrainian drone range. The piece contrasts Ukraine's faster shift of critical services to EU sites and Microsoft, Amazon, and Starlink, and briefly previews an Anthropic report on how easily open-weight model safeguards can be removed.

Risky Business Newsupdated Oct 15, 13:00 UTC · 1d agofirst Oct 15, 04:11 UTC · 2d agoIndustry 11 sources2· 1 read

Yandex Data Center Outage Disrupts Access to Cloud Files Following Drone Attack

Drone strikes damaged three Yandex data centers in Russia, disrupting cloud files and Yandex Cloud.

Yandex said drone strikes damaged three Russian data centers between October 7 and 11, 2026. The Sasovo site and the Vladimir site stopped operating, while Kaluga lost part of its infrastructure; no injuries were reported. Yandex Disk users saw failed downloads and HTTP 302, 500, and 504 errors, and Yandex Cloud ran in emergency mode with partial compute, AI Studio, and security services and Monium offline. The company gave no restoration timeline, urged alternate disaster-recovery plans, and reporting did not establish malware, stolen credentials, or unauthorized access.

Cyber Security Newsupdated Oct 15, 13:00 UTC · 1d agofirst Oct 13, 03:28 UTC · 4d agoIndustry 11 sources3· 2 reads

Yandex confirms service outage as users lose access to cloud files

Drone strikes knocked out Yandex data centers, cutting customers off from cloud files and services.

Yandex said drone attacks damaged data centers in Sasovo (October 8), Kaluga (October 9), and Vladimir (October 11), fully shutting Sasovo and Vladimir and degrading Kaluga. Customers cannot reliably download Yandex Disk files, reporting HTTP 302, 500, and 504 errors and backups missing thumbnails. The company, whose cloud supports much of Russia’s government and business internet, called remaining capacity unstable and told customers to use alternative disaster-recovery infrastructure. No injuries were reported, permanent data loss is unconfirmed, and services such as Console, API, S3, and Kubernetes remain only partly available while Monium is offline.

BleepingComputerupdated Oct 15, 13:00 UTC · 1d agofirst Oct 12, 19:23 UTC · 4d agoIndustry 11 sources1

Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine

Ukrainian drones struck Yandex data centers near Moscow, disrupting payments, cloud, and other Russian digital services.

Ukrainian drone strikes on October 9 and October 11 knocked out Yandex data centers in Russia's Kaluga and Vladimir regions, including a 63-megawatt facility and the site of the Galushkin supercomputer. Galushkin ranked 134 on the Top500 list at 20.64 petaflops. Reported disruptions hit Russian payment and banking apps, email, e-commerce, streaming, ride-hailing, maps, Yandex search, and Yandex Cloud customers. Commentators cited Yandex's centralized infrastructure and Russia's 2019 Sovereign Internet Law as limits on wartime backup.

Ars Technica · AIupdated Oct 15, 13:00 UTC · 1d agofirst Oct 12, 17:52 UTC · 4d agoOther 11 sources1

Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex datacenters knock cloud and payments offline

Ukrainian drone strikes on three Yandex datacenters knocked Yandex Cloud and Yandex Pay offline.

Ukraine struck three of Yandex's five Russian datacenters with drones between October 7 and October 9, taking parts of the company's cloud and payments stack offline. The Sasovo site was seriously damaged and fully shut down, Kaluga lost some infrastructure, and a later strike hit the Vladimir site that supports Yandex Pay. Fintech head Dima Pirogov said customer money is safe but gave no restoration timeline. NetBlocks reported Yandex Cloud connectivity at about 30 percent of normal on October 11, while engineers prioritized Alice, Mail, Maps, Search, and Taxi.

The Register · Securityupdated Oct 15, 13:00 UTC · 1d agofirst Oct 12, 13:45 UTC · 4d agoIndustry 11 sources2

Ukraine hits Russian Datacentre causing a 29% drop in US Twitter posts

Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted Russian online services and sharply cut Yandex-linked bot traffic.

The London Economic reports that Ukrainian drone strikes hit Yandex data centers in Russia and took major online services offline. Monitors said residents could not use banking apps, complete transactions, or book taxis, while automated traffic from Yandex's network fell to about 0.4% of its recent peak. French researcher David Colon said Storm-1516 false narratives then received only dozens of impressions instead of millions of views. President Zelensky said the strikes reduced bot-driven hate and provocations on social platforms.

Hacker News · securityupdated Oct 15, 13:00 UTC · 1d agofirst Oct 12, 13:06 UTC · 4d agoThreat actor 11 sources HN 20↑ · 9 comments1

Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack

Yandex bot traffic fell about 99% after a reported data center attack, per Cloudflare Radar.

A Hacker News post points to Cloudflare Radar for AS13238, where Yandex bot traffic is shown down about 99% over seven days after a reported data center attack. The item itself only notes 54 points and 7 comments and does not name an attacker, malware, CVE, or confirm data theft or ransomware. The visible impact is a near-total collapse of Yandex bot traffic rather than a documented breach.

Hacker News · securityupdated Oct 15, 13:00 UTC · 1d agofirst Oct 12, 04:54 UTC · 5d agoIndustry 11 sources HN 54↑ · 7 comments1

Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"

Ukrainian drones knocked out a Yandex AI data center, disrupting several Russian online services.

Ars Technica reported that Ukrainian drones knocked out an AI data center belonging to Yandex, often called Russia's Google. The same reporting said a dating app, a real-estate aggregator, a self-publishing platform, and a Russian Premier League club website were also affected. The article describes data centers as 2026 wartime targets, including earlier Iranian drone strikes on Amazon sites in Bahrain and the UAE, alongside Ukraine's strikes on Russian military, shipping, and energy infrastructure.

Ars Technica · AIOct 9, 22:04 UTC · 7d agoAI industry5· 3 reads

Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours

A drone strike took Yandex’s Kaluga data-center modules offline, the company’s second Russian site hit in 48 hours.

Russian state media TASS reported on October 9 that a drone strike put several modules of Yandex’s Kaluga data center completely out of service. The Grabtsevo industrial-park site, described as Yandex’s largest in Russia, covers about 130,000 square meters, was planned for 63 megawatts, and can hold more than 3,800 server racks. It supports Yandex internal services and Yandex Cloud. The strike was the company’s second data-center hit in 48 hours, after damage at its Sasovo facility in Ryazan.

Hacker News · securityOct 9, 14:20 UTC · 7d agoOther HN 23↑ · 6 comments1· 1 read

Drones hit Yandex site in first major attack on Russian data hub

Drones struck a Yandex data centre in the first major attack on a Russian data hub.

Reuters reports that drones hit a Yandex site in what is described as the first major attack on a Russian data hub. The Hacker News post only carries the headline, with 20 points and one comment. No cyber intrusion, stolen-data figures, or technical indicators are included in the available text.

Hacker News · securityOct 8, 15:29 UTC · 8d agoOther HN 20↑ · 1 comments1

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