Servers operated by Ubuntu and its father or mother firm Canonical have 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 serious 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, nevertheless, have continued to work usually. A Canonical standing web page stated: “Canonical’s net infrastructure is beneath a sustained, cross-border assault and we’re working to handle it.” Apart from that, Ubuntu and Canonical officers have maintained radio silence because the outage started.
A decades-long scourge
A bunch sympathetic to the Iranian authorities has taken credit score for the outage. Based on posts on Telegram and different social media, the group is answerable for a DDoS assault utilizing Beam, an operation that claims to check the power 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.
