The foundations of the many apps and services offered by Russian IT giant Yandex have been exposed thanks to about 45GB of source code files that were allegedly stolen by a former employee. Key ranking parameters for Yandex’s search engine were also divulged, the likes of which are rarely discussed in public.
Torrent files claiming to be the Yandex git sources appeared online on January 25; they contain data that appear to have been obtained in July 2022 and date back to February 2022. Some archives definitely contain modern source code for corporate services, according to software engineer Arseniy Shestakov, who claims to have confirmed this with current and former Yandex employees.
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Yandex Code Leak Reveals How Russian Search Engine Ranks Pages
To the security blog BleepingComputer, Yandex stated emphatically, Yandex was not hacked. There is no danger to user data or the functionality of the platform, according to Yandex.
The documents primarily originate from February 2022, when Russia launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine. In an interview with BleepingComputer, a former Yandex executive explained that the leak was political and that the ex-employee had not tried to sell the code to Yandex rivals. The anti-spam code was not disclosed either.
The release of 1,922 ranking criteria in Yandex’s search algorithm has caused quite a stir, albeit it is unclear whether or not this has any security or structural repercussions. Search engine optimization expert...
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