Beget cyberattack: hosting provider declares force majeure
Hosting provider Beget reported a massive cyberattack on the night of November 2, 2026 and declared force majeure. Some services were disrupted.
Hosting provider Beget reported a massive cyberattack on the night of November 2, 2026 and declared force majeure. Some services were disrupted.
On the evening of 1 November users got fake alerts about radiation, chemical threats and street fighting. The service was taken down and is coming back in stages. A group calling itself Hitcore claimed responsibility.
On 29 October about $6.3 billion left Binance hot wallets across ten blockchains. TRM Labs and Chainalysis attribute it to North Korea's TraderTraitor. Around $3 billion is frozen, Binance says it will cover losses.
Binance froze funds after an engineer's laptop was compromised. The Register links the incident to $6.3 billion in unauthorized trades.
Google released Gemini 4 Carbon. It scored 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding vulnerabilities and 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploiting them.
CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 give remote code execution in PHP from version 5.4 onwards. Patches shipped on 21 October, details leaked a day early. A third flaw is still unpatched.
A fully kitted Raspberry Pi 5 now costs about $385. We compare used mini PCs, Intel N100 boxes and VPS for a home server and VPN.