Several notable events occurred over the past 48 hours affecting service availability and data security.
The main story is a large-scale outage in Google Cloud infrastructure (europe-west2 region, London). The incident impacted over a dozen platforms, including BigQuery, Cloud Run, and others. The online bank Revolut and apps from Lloyds Bank, HSBC, and ING Germany were affected. Google engineers are working on recovery. For XConnect users, this is a reminder that even major cloud providers are not immune to failures, so having backup communication channels is essential.
The second incident is Avito's instability. Over 11,000 users complained about the service being down, 502 errors, and the inability to post listings. The platform reported recovery, but outages recurred. This shows how fragile popular online marketplaces can be.
The third news is a breach at provider FirstVDS. Hackers gained access to passwords, SSH and API keys, tokens, and crypto wallets of clients. A vulnerability in VMmanager 6 is not fully patched yet. The provider recommends urgently changing all passwords, revoking old keys, and moving crypto funds to new wallets. For XConnect users, this is an important security hygiene lesson: regularly update passwords and use two-factor authentication.
Additionally, ICANN is developing a verification mechanism for law enforcement requests for domain owner data via RDRS. The system will require strict authentication of officers to prevent abuse. This is part of a broader trend toward tighter control over access to personal data.
In the technical section, there are two guides. The first covers setting up a WEB proxy for Telegram via nginx and tproxy-server. The second describes running SoftEther and ocserv VPN servers in containers on MikroTik. Both will be useful for administrators looking to extend their infrastructure capabilities.
There is not much data for the period, so this digest is brief. We will continue to monitor developments.