Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical went offline on Thursday morning and have been down since, a situation that is preventing the OS provider from communicating normally after the failed disclosure of a major vulnerability.
Attempts to connect to most Ubuntu and Canonical webpages and download OS updates from Ubuntu Server have consistently failed over the past 24 hours. However, updates to mirror sites have been working normally. A Canonical status page stated: “Canonical’s web infrastructure is under sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it.” Furthermore, Ubuntu and Canonical officials have maintained radio silence since the outage began.
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A group sympathetic to the Iranian government has taken credit for the outage. According to posts on Telegram and other social media, the group is responsible for the DDoS attack using Beam, an operation that claims to test the ability of servers to work under heavy load, but, like other “strainers”, is, in fact, a front for services that rogues pay to remove third-party sites. In recent days, the same pro-Iran group has taken credit for DDoSes on eBay.
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