Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical went offline on Thursday morning and have remained down since, a situation that prevents the operating system vendor from communicating normally after the failed disclosure of significant vulnerability.
Attempts to connect to most Ubuntu and Canonical websites and download operating system updates from Ubuntu servers have consistently failed over the past 24 hours. However, mirror site updates have continued to function normally. a canonical status page said: “Canonical’s web infrastructure is under sustained cross-border attack and we are working to address it.” Aside from that, Ubuntu and Canonical officials have maintained radio silence since the outage began.
A scourge that lasts decades
A group sympathetic to the Iranian government has taken credit for the blackout. According to posts on Telegram and other social networks, the group is responsible for a DDoS attack using Beam, an operation that purports to test the ability of servers to operate under heavy loads but, like other “stressors,” are in fact fronts for services that bad actors pay to take down third-party sites. In recent days, the same pro-Iran group has taken credit for DDoS attacks on eBay.
