Project

NetBlocks

Internet monitoring organisation that measures connectivity disruptions, shutdowns and censorship from network telemetry and publishes the results publicly.

Current stories

productConfirmed8 publishers

Drone strikes on three Yandex data centers took Russian banking and video services offline

Ukraine hit three Yandex data centers with drones in a few days, the latest on Oct. 11 in the Vladimir region. Zelenskyy says the strikes also silenced pro-Russian bots, but the one measured figure in the coverage describes traffic from Yandex's own network.

Publishers:bbc.com euronews.com futurism.com gizmodo.com mezha.net motherjones.com rferl.org theverge.com

Perspective Coverage

8 publishers

Builder: Builder 23%
Operator: Operator 25%
Investor: Investor 52%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption: Not scored
Hype gap+70
Incentives60
Confidence78

buildConfirmed4 publishers

Yandex-network bot traffic falls to 0.4% of its two-week peak after Ukrainian drone strikes

Cloudflare reports Yandex-network bot traffic fell to 0.4% of its two-week peak after Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers. The series covers one network's requests, so it documents a provider outage more firmly than any change in global traffic.

Publishers:dev.to fastcompany.com mezha.net runtimewire.com tomshardware.com

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers

Builder: Builder 25%
Operator: Operator 52%
Investor: Investor 23%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption: Not scored
Hype gap+55
Incentives: Not scored
Confidence70

securityConfirmed8 publishers

Yandex Cloud limits new resources after reported drone strike shuts a Ryazan data center

Yandex lost one of its five data centers on Thursday after a reported Ukrainian drone strike on Sasovo in Russia's Ryazan region. Running workloads moved to its other sites, but the company warned that creating new cloud resources may be limited.

Publishers:arstechnica.com channelnewsasia.com cnbc.com cryptobriefing.com datacenterdynamics.com en.sedaily.com gizmodo.com nbcnews.com pravda.com.ua therecord.media

Perspective Coverage

10 publishers

Builder: Builder 27%
Operator: Operator 46%
Investor: Investor 27%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption62
Hype gap+20
Incentives60
Confidence70

securityOne report1 publisher

Russian drone strikes on Kyiv data centers degraded internet for about 100,000 households

Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation counted about 100,000 households with internet problems after Wednesday's drone attack on Kyiv data centers. Four providers lost traffic when buildings holding their core network equipment were damaged, and one of them was back within about two hours.

Publishers:therecord.media

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption: Not scored
Hype gap0
Incentives60
Confidence55

investOne report1 publisher

Russian drone strikes on shared Kyiv data centers cut at least four ISPs at once

Russian drones hitting Kyiv's shared exchange buildings took at least four ISPs down together and left about 100,000 households with internet problems. Providers that share a building fail as one, taking with them the phone alerts that warn residents of the next strike.

Publishers:techtimes.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption: Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives: Not scored
Confidence50