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Russian host Beget rebuilds cloud after data-wiping attack
Beget said a Nov. 1 data-wiping attack on its management systems erased cloud data, forcing a rebuild; it reported partial hosting restoration more than a week later, BleepingComputer said.
Russian web host Beget said a data-wiping attack on the night of Nov. 1 reached the management layer of its architecture and forced it to rebuild cloud infrastructure from scratch, BleepingComputer reported Monday1.
Beget, which BleepingComputer described as a major Russian hosting, cloud, and domain-registration provider serving more than 200,000 customers, said it detected the malware soon after it activated and disconnected servers from the network to limit spread1.
In a Nov. 3 Telegram post cited by BleepingComputer, Beget said the attacker ran data-zeroing scripts after gaining access to management systems1. The company said all data in its cloud infrastructure, including VPS, S3, and Kubernetes, was lost, along with CDN settings and IP configurations1.
VPS binary backups were completely lost and file backups only partly survived, BleepingComputer reported, citing a Nov. 6 Beget assessment that file backups would be available for roughly half of VPS users1. "Unfortunately, it is impossible to recover all data," Beget said of VPS data1. Matching surviving backups to users would take time and is technically complex, the company said1.
More than a week after the attack, Beget said 60% of shared hosting and 40% of dedicated servers had been restored, with recovery still underway1. About 1,000 servers needed manual checks for vulnerabilities and hidden scripts before returning online, and the firm said it was treating all parts of the infrastructure as potentially infected1.
Beget said its investigation found no evidence the attacker tried to download or modify data, and that the attack appeared focused solely on destruction1. Who carried out the incident, and the full extent of customer data that cannot be restored, were not independently verified in the report1.
