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

[Parkinsond]

Yandex has confirmed a major service outage after drone attacks damaged three data centers in Russia, leaving some users unable to access cloud files.

Two facilities stopped operating, while a third lost part of its infrastructure.

The disruption affected Yandex Disk users and businesses running services on Yandex Cloud across the platform.

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

Yandex has confirmed a major service outage after drone attacks damaged three data centers in Russia, leaving some users unable to access cloud files.

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[Parkinsond]

"They probably were hosted on the same servers as those Yandex ones that got bombed."

 

[Khushal]

"They probably were hosted on the same servers as those Yandex ones that got bombed."

VPN not working on any of my devices since October 11

Hello,I have [Kaspersky Plus/Premium] with VPN included, paid for one year, and I use it on my PC and my phone. Since the early morning of Sunday, October 11, I haven't been able to connect to the VPN on either device. The location I need is Argentina, and it won't connect.I uninstalled and reins...

forum.kaspersky.com

 

[Parkinsond]

VPN not working on any of my devices since October 11

Hello,I have [Kaspersky Plus/Premium] with VPN included, paid for one year, and I use it on my PC and my phone. Since the early morning of Sunday, October 11, I haven't been able to connect to the VPN on either device. The location I need is Argentina, and it won't connect.I uninstalled and reins...

forum.kaspersky.com

So it is just speculations.

 

[Khushal]

We understand that these issues are disrupting your normal use of the service.

As compensation, we will automatically extend your Kaspersky VPN subscriptions by a period equal to the duration of the service outage. No action is required on your part.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

 

[Parkinsond]

We understand that these issues are disrupting your normal use of the service.

As compensation, we will automatically extend your Kaspersky VPN subscriptions by a period equal to the duration of the service outage. No action is required on your part.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

It is just the coincidence of complaining about Kaspersky server connectivity issues which have started just after the damage to Yandex cloud servers.

 

[Marko :)]

So... you're telling me... that the services of a company convincing us all it has nothing to do with Russian government, mysteriously went down at the same time as Yandex data center controlled by FSB?

 

[Parkinsond]

So... you're telling me... that the services of a company convincing us all it has nothing to do with Russian government, mysteriously went down at the same time as Yandex data center controlled by FSB?

Those Redditors are saying so; personally, I use Yandex browser and Yandex mail

 

[lokamoka820]

My little sister uses Kaspersky, and there have been no service outages or update problems on her end.

 

[Khushal]

My little sister uses Kaspersky, and there have been no service outages or update problems on her end.

which country

 

[Parkinsond]

My little sister uses Kaspersky, and there have been no service outages or update problems on her end.

According the server your Kaspersky is using.

 

[Marko :)]

Those Redditors are saying so; personally, I use Yandex browser and Yandex mail

I wouldn't touch those with a wooden, remote controlled stick from another planet. Literal definition of spyware. Yandex is only good for searching for pirated content, nothing else.

Back on topic.

While we cannot be 100% sure what's behind this, the fact is Kaspersky went down at the same time Yandex data center(s) did. Also strange that both, Kaspersky and Yandex, refuse to give time estimate when they will restore their services. To me it looks like they only moved frontend to Switzerland, while backend still remains in Russia.

I mean, I always knew and considered them as prolonged arm of Russian government no matter how many times they tried deny that claim. In authoritarian regimes, you can't fight with the government and Kaspersky is too big in Russia they would simply let them go. It's of strategic importance for the country.

Same goes for Chinese companies. Remember how Huawei was bragging to be a private company that doesn't have anything to do with CCP? Well, the top positions in the company are occupied by the CCP members as it's required by Chinese law.

 

[Parkinsond]

To me it looks like they only moved frontend to Switzerland, while backend still remains in Russia.

Energy prices in Russia is lower than in Switzerland; data centers consume a large amount of energy.

 

[lokamoka820]

which country

Jordan.

 

[lokamoka820]

I mean, I always knew and considered them as prolonged arm of Russian government no matter how many times they tried deny that claim. In authoritarian regimes, you can't fight with the government and Kaspersky is too big in Russia they would simply let them go. It's of strategic importance for the country.

I believe this applies to all systems in the world, whether authoritarian or democratic, communist or liberal; they are all labels that have no real value. They are merely masks concealing the one common truth of all systems, which use any means to justify their ends.

 

[Marko :)]

Energy prices in Russia is lower than in Switzerland; data centers consume a large amount of energy.

So? Kaspersky isn't housing their servers there. They don't have any servers in their ownership. They just rent them from the data center. Hence they don't have to deal with energy prices or any other cost except what service provider bills them.

I believe this applies to all systems in the world, whether authoritarian or democratic, communist or liberal; they are all labels that have no real value. They are merely masks concealing the one common truth of all systems, which use any means to justify their ends.

The difference is the law.

In Russia and China, write something that the government doesn't like, police will be knocking on your door in the matter of minutes, not hours and put you in handcuffs.

Do this in the EU, government won't do a single thing. Even in case of criminal deed, first there need to be criminal charges filed against you, then the judge needs to order platform to reveal who is behind the profile, then another order needs to be given to the ISP to reveal who's behind the IP address and just then you can be prosecuted. Lengthy process only reserved for hard criminal deeds like murder, money laundering and such... and you have right to defend yourself in court.

Not to mention, people think "I'm from the US so I'm safe from spying if I use Chinese software". That's certainly not the case. US—Russia or US—China relations might be strained; but when it comes to something highly illegal, even in the case of war, security services still exchange data behind the scenes. Cross border data exchange is real and is done constantly.

 

[Parkinsond]

They just rent them from the data center. Hence they don't have to deal with energy prices or any other cost except what service provider bills them.

The rent should go up proportional to the energy costs of the hosting data centers.
Kaspersky will pay less using Yandex servers in Russia rich with energy sources compared to the more deprived Switzerland.

 

[cartaphilus]

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Not to mention, people think "I'm from the US so I'm safe from spying if I use Chinese software". That's certainly not the case. US—Russia or US—China relations might be strained; but when it comes to something highly illegal, even in the case of war, security services still exchange data behind the scenes. Cross border data exchange is real and is done constantly....

I would say even more so, just because your relationships are strained politically doesn't mean that the law apparatus is not ready to snitch on any of the foreigners in order to get them into trouble. Afterall, all the legal debacle will tie up the legal system and cost $$$ for the foreign nation. The more time a foreign nation spends in prosecuting it's own small fish the less time and resources they have in going after the big fish (which are most likely housed in the nations that you have strained relationships with (and the ones doing the snitching) in the first place).

 

[Marko :)]

The rent should go up proportional to the energy costs of the hosting data centers.
Kaspersky will pay less using Yandex servers in Russia rich with energy sources compared to the more deprived Switzerland.

Energy cost is just one of thousand factors. Each company signs a contract to agreed price. They also get discounts if they use multiple services.

 

[stonjean633]

Not sure why Kaspersky gets outage for 3 days now. It means their backup servers failed too. There seems no automatic failover or redundancy on other geographic location.

Kaspersky Malware Engine did not fail its customers,but the architectural design did.