In the work of Yandex's services, a failure occurred

In the work of Yandex applications, a mass failure occurred. According to RBC, the company's press service confirmed that a number of users had short-term difficulties with access to services. “At the moment, all difficulties have been eliminated, services are returning to working mode,” the company noted.

Complaints came from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Samara, Kazan, Ufa and other cities. Most often there are problems with the site (47% of complaints), mail (38%) and the Yandex service. Money "(14%).

On March 14, it was reported that Yandex and several other Russian Internet holdings were subjected to a powerful network attack on technology, which uses vulnerability in the system of blocking the sites of Roskomnadzor.

According to RBC, the attackers conducted DNS attacks (replacing records in the domain names system) with a number of large Russian resources, one of the main victims was Yandex.

“This [was] operation of existing deficiencies in the mechanism of applying the list of locks. Any company and any site, not only Yandex, can suffer from such actions, the Yandex press service said.