Anonymous ‘hacks’ Russian YouTube and says it won’t work again

The hacker group anonymouswho declared “cyber war” on Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, for the military campaign in Ukraine, today claimed responsibility for the attack on the RuTube video website, known as the Russian alternative to YouTube, and assured that he will probably not do it again. function more.

“Around 75% of the major release databases and infrastructure and 90% of the backup and recovery cluster databases were severely damaged, meaning RuTube is probably gone forever. ”, the group reported on its Twitter account.

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The Russian video platform suffered the biggest computer attack in its historyas reported on its Telegram channel, and indicated that the restoration of the service, inoperative since Monday, “will require more time than the technicians initially thought.”

RuTube denied information in the Russian media that the hackers deleted the source code of the platform that it will not be able to work again.

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After the start of the Russian military conflict in Ukraine, Anonymous not only threatened cyberattacks against the main websites of the Russian Government, but also assured that it would reveal what Putin “has hidden for years”, promising that these revelations would be “a blow devastating” for the president and his “corrupt puppets”.

Source: Elcomercio

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