[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-cyberattack-wipes-cloud-servers-at-russian-host-beget":10,"sections":45},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":34,"tags":35,"sources":40,"feedback":44,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":44,"total_tokens":44},12675,"cyberattack-wipes-cloud-servers-at-russian-host-beget","Cyberattack Wipes Cloud Servers at Russian Host Beget","Over 1,000 servers at Beget, Russia's second-largest .ru registrar, need manual checks after a November 1 attack, and the company has not said how it happened.","Russian hosting provider Beget lost websites, cloud storage, VPS (virtual private server) hosting and Kubernetes container hosting in a cyberattack on November 1, and it says more than 1,000 servers must be inspected by hand before services return.\n\nThe company recorded abnormal activity immediately before the outage, and every level of its infrastructure was affected. Assessing the damage took several days. Beget told a Russian newspaper that most data for the majority of its virtual hosting and cloud customers should be recoverable from backups, but that the volume makes the process slow. Its public statement read: \"We are not giving up and are continuing to look for ways to recover this data.\" It also told customers to change passwords and replace access keys and other credentials stored on its cloud servers.\n\nBeget has not disclosed the cause of the attack or how the attackers got in, and no one has been named. The incident came amid a run of drone and online attacks on Russian tech companies, and Ukraine-based or anti-Putin actors inside Russia are presumed responsible. That is presumption, not attribution.\n\nBeget is not a minor player. Founded in 2007, it is the second-largest registrar for .ru domains, with 14.7% of the market. The EU has also sanctioned it for providing hosting to authorities in the Russian-occupied regions of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk. Whether that made it a target is unknown.\n\nAnatoly Sazonov of Softline Group called the outage an example of systemic risk from relying on a single provider. A site, corporate mail and databases hosted in one place can stall several parts of a business at once. Recovery is also complicated by how Beget organizes and prioritizes data, and by many customers having no disaster recovery plan of their own.\n\nBeget has not said whether the manual checks reflect lasting damage or caution, and that answer will largely decide how long customers wait.","[\"cyberattack\",\"russia\",\"web-hosting\",\"sanctions\"]","2026-11-09T21:25:00.000Z","2026-11-09T22:34:51.899Z","2026-11-09T22:34:52.129Z","published",null,[24,30],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Remove the unsupported claim that cleanup will 'run for weeks' (Beget only said 'a considerable amount of time'), soften the 'Wipes' headline so it matches the body's point that most data is recoverable from backups, and fix the closing logic, which wrongly ties 'lasting damage vs. weak infrastructure' to 'targeted strike vs. opportunistic crime' and also overreaches in saying customers 'depend entirely' on Beget's backups.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"Remove the meta-source phrasing \"The source offers no evidence either way\" and say plainly that Beget has not disclosed the cause or how attackers got in, and cut the unsupported editorializing that customers' missing recovery plans are \"where the real exposure sits\".","security",[36,37,38,39],"cyberattack","russia","web-hosting","sanctions",[41],{"name":42,"url":43},"TechRadar","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.techradar.com\u002Fpro\u002Fwe-are-not-giving-up-russian-hosting-giant-beget-has-cloud-platform-wiped-in-major-cyberattack",0,{"sections":46},[47,52,56,61,66,71,76,81,86,91,96,101,106,111],{"name":48,"slug":49,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"AI","ai",7144,"2026-11-12T13:27:45.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":34,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"Security",1128,"2026-11-11T18:05:00.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Deals","deals",642,"2026-11-12T14:00:00.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Policy","policy",619,"2026-11-12T12:53:36.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",364,"2026-11-12T11:12:32.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Hardware","hardware",336,"2026-11-12T11:24:43.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Science","science",230,"2026-11-12T10:00:00.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Software","software",168,"2026-11-11T17:36:49.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Startups","startups",159,"2026-11-11T12:30:00.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",127,"2026-11-11T19:00:44.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"General","general",118,"2026-11-11T16:49:42.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"Gaming","gaming",107,"2026-11-12T10:09:03.000Z",{"name":107,"slug":108,"count":109,"latest_published_at":110},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":112,"slug":113,"count":114,"latest_published_at":115},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]