Russian web hosting provider Beget declares force majeure after a massive cyberattack

Russian web hosting provider Beget said on its official Telegram channel that its infrastructure suffered "a massive cyberattack" on the night of 2 November 2026. In the same notice, the company declared force majeure circumstances to its customers.

According to the summary published on 3 November by cybersecurity firm Brandefense, Beget cited Article 401, paragraph 3, of the Russian Civil Code and said the attack had disrupted several services. The company was prioritising its name servers (DNS), with an estimated timeframe of 4 to 5 hours, was restoring email and said it had copies of the files of the vast majority of hosting accounts and cloud resources, although recovering them takes time. It gave no timeframe for full recovery, according to Brandefense.

Telegram channels cited by Brandefense claim that customer websites, the control panel, virtual servers, email and DNS stopped responding, and that around 15% of active .ru, .рф and .su sites are hosted on Beget, with figures ranging from about 335,000 to almost 500,000 sites. Those figures do not come from Beget and have not been verified. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack and Beget has not named any perpetrator.

Story under review: only the beginning of Beget's official notice, which confirms the attack, and the Brandefense summary could be opened. Still missing are the full text of the statement, the actual number of sites affected, how the attack was carried out and whether services have been restored.