Positive Technologies: hackers hacked Rutube in March and studied the operation of video hosting for two months before the cyberattack on May 9

The hackers, who caused the Rutube video hosting service to stop working for several days on May 9, hacked the service in March. Vedomosti about this . told Denis Baranov, the CEO of Positive Technologies, which was brought in to investigate the cyber attack,

According to Baranov, in March, hackers gained access to the Rutube system by hacking into employee accounts, and remained silent for two months.

“By this moment (May 9 - MZ), they (hackers - MZ) studied the infrastructure and clearly identified the virtual machines involved in ensuring the operation of the service, and deleted them," Baranov explained.

, owned by Gazprom Media Rutube , where some state TV channels moved after being blocked on YouTube, stopped opening on the morning of May 9 and started working again on the evening of May 11. Representatives of the service called the cyber attack “the most powerful in the entire history of existence.”