Russian cloud firm Beget rebuilds from scratch after data wiper attack
Beget said 1,000 servers need manual checks as it restores services and investigates an attack that destroyed data across its cloud systems.
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'We are not giving up': Russian hosting giant Beget has cloud platform wiped in major cyberattack
Russian hosting provider Beget was subject to a cyberattack on November 1st, 2026While 1000s of websites were hit, cloud storage, VPS hosting, and Kubernetes servers were wipedThe attack came amidst a spate of drone and online attacks targeting Russian tech companies, presumably by Ukraine-based attackers or anti-Putin elements within RussiaA “massive cyberattack” took Russian web hosting company Beget’s entire operation offline, with abnormal a…
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IT Security News - cybersecurity, infosecurity newsRussian cloud firm Beget rebuilds from scratch after data wiper attack
A data-wiping malware attack has forced Russian cloud services provider Beget to rebuild its cloud infrastructure from scratch, the company said. [...]
In one night, a hacker erased all data from Beget's cloud, one of the largest Russian hosting companies, with software designed to destroy and not to claim a ransom, and some of the backups were destroyed with them.
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