Servers operated by Ubuntu and its mum or dad firm Canonical had been knocked offline on Thursday morning and have remained down ever since, a state of affairs that’s stopping the OS supplier from speaking usually following the botched disclosure of a significant vulnerability.
Makes an attempt to connect with most Ubuntu and Canonical webpages and obtain OS updates from Ubuntu servers have constantly failed over the previous 24 hours. Updates from mirror websites, nonetheless, have continued to work usually. A Canonical standing web page stated: “Canonical’s internet infrastructure is beneath a sustained, cross-border assault and we’re working to deal with it.” Aside from that, Ubuntu and Canonical officers have maintained radio silence for the reason that outage started.
A decades-long scourge
A gaggle sympathetic to the Iranian authorities has taken credit score for the outage. In line with posts on Telegram and different social media, the group is answerable for a DDoS assault utilizing Beam, an operation that claims to check the flexibility of servers to function beneath heavy hundreds however, like different “stressors,” are, in actual fact, fronts for providers miscreants pay for to take down third-party websites. In latest days, the identical pro-Iran group has taken credit score for DDoSes on eBay.
