In Russia, several services of the tech giant Yandex were affected by a drone attack

Russian tech giant Yandex announced that its cloud infrastructure was down after a new Ukrainian drone attack on a data center on Sunday October 11.

“As a result of a drone attack, the infrastructure of the data center in Vladimir [a city east of Moscow] was damaged. Data center operations were completely interrupted,” the company said on Telegram.

The group specifies that the attack did not cause any casualties and that repairs were underway. The rest of the infrastructure resources “are unstable” and the platform “is down,” says Yandex. Russian media have reported malfunctions on several services of the Russian giant (Yandex Go, Yandex Music, Yandex Pro, etc.).

Sometimes nicknamed the "Russian Google", Yandex is the main search engine in Russian and operates a cloud infrastructure as well as numerous services, such as taxis and deliveries. It is also dominant in the Russian-speaking world. Yandex announced that its data center located in the city of Kaluga was damaged on Friday, after that of Sassovo on Thursday, respectively 150 km southwest and 300 kilometers southeast of Moscow.

Several computer data centers and infrastructures linked to internet and mobile telephone operators have been targeted by the Russian army in Ukraine over the past three weeks, causing outages.