Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical were knocked offline on Thursday morning and have remained down ever since, a situation that’s stopping the OS provider from communicating normally following the botched disclosure of a serious vulnerability.
Attempts to connect with most Ubuntu and Canonical webpages and download OS updates from Ubuntu servers have consistently failed over the past 24 hours. Updates from mirror sites, nonetheless, have continued to work normally. A Canonical status page said: “Canonical’s web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we’re working to handle it.” Aside from that, Ubuntu and Canonical officials have maintained radio silence for the reason that outage began.
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A bunch sympathetic to the Iranian government has taken credit for the outage. In accordance with posts on Telegram and other social media, the group is liable for a DDoS attack using Beam, an operation that claims to check the power of servers to operate under heavy loads but, like other “stressors,” are, in reality, fronts for services miscreants pay for to take down third-party sites. In recent days, the identical pro-Iran group has taken credit for DDoSes on eBay.