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.
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Putin orders Russian data centers to reserve 10% for the state
Putin has told non-state Russian data centers to set aside 10% of capacity for state IT systems, available on 24 hours' notice.
Ukraine's air raid alert app hacked: millions received fake radiation warnings
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.
$6.3 billion stolen from Binance: the largest crypto theft ever, via compromised hot wallet signing
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.
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Leads Vulnerability Benchmarks
Google released Gemini 4 Carbon. It scored 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding vulnerabilities and 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploiting them.
Mistral Large 4 lands on Hugging Face
Hugging Face has introduced Mistral Large 4, the new generation of Mistral AI's flagship model. What is known about the release and what is still missing.
GPT-6.1 Terra: OpenAI launches a computer-use model
OpenAI introduced GPT-6.1 Terra, a model it says brings fast and capable computer use to everyone.
PHP2Shell: two 9.2-rated holes in the PHP core, millions of exploit attempts in a day
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.
Quad9 Leaves France: DNS Resolver Shuts Down There Nov 24
Quad9 will stop serving users in France on November 24 after a Paris court set a €1,000 daily penalty over pirate tennis streams.
VPN piracy blocking: tech coalition warns of security risks
The Internet Infrastructure Coalition says forcing VPNs to block piracy weakens security for everyone. France already has such orders, the US is weighing them.