TechRussia’s August VPN crackdown relied on data already collected by its own apps

Russia launched one of its broadest VPN-blocking waves in early August. Representatives of four services said the campaign apparently used IP addresses, social-media links, and corporate subnet data gathered by Yandex, VK, Max, and HeadHunter and fed into the TSPU filtering system, making blocking broader and more automated while slowing data-center networks.

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