MOSCOW, 18 Jan. The head of Gazprom-Media, Alexander Zharov, in an interview with RBC compared the hacking of the Russian video hosting Rutube with an attack on Iran's peaceful nuclear program. launched a special operation in Ukraine. He believes that initially it was of a «reconnaissance and research nature», and during the implementation of its active phase, the goal was to destroy the Rutube architecture without the possibility of recovery.
«As a distraction — to focus our attention on a false goal — was the user base on third-party public servers of a third country has been published,» the entrepreneur said.
The head of Gazprom-Media claims that the hackers who hacked the video hosting simultaneously launched the «server self-erase» program and encrypted logical link databases .
Zharov described the hacking strategy as «not unique, but very rare», comparing it to the Stuxnet operation, which aimed to destroy Iran's nuclear program.
He also added that the company had already restored Rutube's functionality and lost elements of its architecture.< br>On Victory Day, RuTube video hosting was subjected to a severe hacker attack. The service resumed on May 11. Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov admitted that the cyber attack was carried out by hackers from Ukraine.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of protecting people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years. For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for bloody crimes against civilians in Donbass.