Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

SeanAnderson

... but https://ubuntu.com/ is up?

Lambdanaut

Does anyone know why Ubuntu would be targeted by pro-Iranian activists? I'm perplexed by the connection.

54lasgf

This is really a weird target, as the article notes. Bluesky and Mastodon (?!) also had alleged attacks. The companies that fund Trump's ballroom might like these targets.

CivBase

> Why the group is targeting London-based Canonical remains unclear and no reason was given via its Telegram channel. It is presumably because Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distros. Okay... so? I do not understand the connection between Linux and the US/Israel. You'd think Iran would be very pro-Linux since Windows is a very obvious liability for them. Is there any reason to believe this attack even has anything to do with Iran? They could simply want money and they just happen to also be pro-Iran.

jcgrillo

just now: $ snap refresh error: unable to contact snap store

overtone1000

313 Team runs arch btw

ChrisArchitect

Related: Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972213

Animats

Ubuntu.com seems to be fine right now. A bit slow, maybe. Ubuntu 26.04.LTS is out.

Havoc

Sounds like they're picking on easy targets rather than relevant ones. Lame.

cineticdaffodil

Its so weird to have this stone age regime have such modern attack vectors, i guess the survival hunger games of rhe sanctions tought them this lesson.