Russia’s Rutube video platform remained offline for a second day on Tuesday, after an enormous cyberattack knocked it out simply hours earlier than it was to stream the Victory Day parade in Moscow.
“We now have, in actual fact, been hit with the most important cyberattack in Rutube’s historical past,” the platform stated in a message on Telegram on Tuesday.
“Restoring (entry) will take extra time than engineers first thought,” it stated, whereas its web site rutube.ru displayed a message saying it was engaged on restoring entry following the hack.
The positioning went offline on Monday morning, forward of the annual Victory Day parade on the Crimson Sq. in Moscow that got here greater than two months after Russia launched what it calls a “particular navy operation” in Ukraine.
“Following websites of Russian establishments, which over the previous two months have consistently come beneath cyberattacks, hackers have reached Rutube. The video internet hosting web site has come beneath an enormous cyberattack,” the corporate stated in a Telegram message on Monday.
“Somebody actually wished to forestall Rutube from exhibiting the Victory Day parade and the vacation fireworks.”
