Rutube named the largest DDoS attack as the reason for the massive outage

At approximately 11:19 Moscow time on September 6, the failure was fixed and Rutube was restored. The video platform has returned to normal operation.

According to the Sboy.RF website, complaints about the service continued on the night of September 6-7. Minor operational problems were also reported on September 7. The company does not comment on this information.

Residents of Moscow (28%), St. Petersburg (9%), Moscow Region (5%) and Krasnodar Territory (5%) are the most complaining about the work of Rutube.

On September 5, Rutube reported that its daily viewership reached 10 million people amid a slowdown on YouTube.

After the slowdown in video hosting in Russia, domestic platforms began to offer bloggers functions for their mass migration from YouTube to their platforms. Services appeared on VK Video – VK Video Transfer, on Rutube – “Transfer video from YouTube”, and the newcomer – the “Platform” service, has it, it was placed in the “Video Import” section.

Representatives of these platforms said that YouTube had introduced technical restrictions.

In late July, Sberbank suffered the most powerful DDoS attack in the history of the bank; it lasted 13 hours; the attack was special because it simultaneously used both the infrastructure of the Ukrainian IT army and several third-party botnets, said Stanislav Kuznetsov, deputy chairman of the bank’s board of directors. The third-party botnets included about 62 thousand devices, more than half of them were located in Russia. The bank’s clients’ money was not affected.

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