Russian cloud provider Beget's management layer breached and hit with data-wiping malware; cloud data lost and infrastructure rebuilt from scratch

BleepingComputer reports that Russian cloud and hosting provider Beget said an attacker gained access to the management systems of its entire architecture on the night of Nov 1 and deployed malware that erased server data, after which Beget disconnected all servers ^[1]. According to the report, Beget said all data in its cloud infrastructure, including VPS, S3 and Kubernetes, was lost, VPS binary backups were completely lost and file backups are expected to be available for only about half of users ^[1]. Beget customers should follow the provider's recovery notices and prepare to rebuild services and data on their own if backups cannot be recovered ^[1].

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Beget customers should follow the provider's recovery notices and prepare to rebuild services and data on their own if backups cannot be recovered ^[1]