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Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
- SeanAnderson 6mo ago... but https://ubuntu.com/ https://ubuntu.com/ is up?
- CamouflagedKiwi 6mo agoNot for me, I'm not getting any response from it.
- ramon156 6mo agoBeen down most of the day for me, as well as a bunch of related domains. Canonical's status page has them linked
- z500 6mo agoLoads for me, but not particularly quickly
- _DeadFred_ 6mo agodead here
- SoftTalker 6mo agoNot loading for me right now.
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- sureste 6mo agoIt's loading, but very slowly.
- dotancohen 6mo agoThat's just because everybody is checking if it is down. I bet a fair number of websites would collapse under the curiosity load if it were published in major news outlets they they were down. When was the last time you went to nissan.com? But you'd probably go check if you heard it was down.
- aaron695 6mo ago[dead]
- Lambdanaut 6mo agoDoes anyone know why Ubuntu would be targeted by pro-Iranian activists? I'm perplexed by the connection.
- at-fates-hands 6mo agoCanonical is a UK company, so its a symbolic attack against a Western agent. Ubuntu is used by a lot of tech companies so they knew this attack would get a lot of visibility in the tech community. I'm assuming they think this will garner support from the tech community as well.
- shaftoe 6mo agoExactly as described in "how to win friends and influence people". Break their stuff and extort money.
- Gualdrapo 6mo agoStill it feels quite odd that from all western tech companies (and several more influential than Canonical) they chose precisely one that is highly involved with open source
- alephnerd 6mo agoWelcome to war. This was why the Qatar attack was so destabilizing. Iran's position is that any organization that is in any shape or form aligned with the US and West is a target. And being an anti-war westerner won't help you. People are forgetting that the Iranian government detests Israel and the entirety of the West. The core principals of the revolution which is the IRGC's entire ideological basis is reversing westoxification (Gharbzadegi) and returning to the norms of the Imam Husayn (Velayat-e Faghih).
- leereeves 6mo agoJudging from their behavior against their own people and their Islamic neighbors, it seems like the IRGC's hatred isn't limited to the West.
- 54lasgf 6mo agoThis 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.
- gpm 6mo agoBluesky and mastodon both strike me as easy targets, they expose protocol level integration points that are probably reasonably expensive to serve and reasonably difficult to detect malicious actors on and/or throttle without significantly degrading the service. I could see low budget attackers deciding that they were the most (not very much) bang for the (also not very much) buck that they could get... Ubuntu.com doesn't fit that narrative though. I would have thought canonical would have the servers and skill to weather quite a large attack (on the other hand it did go down...)
- ohnei 6mo agoThe first goal of the Vienna Congress was to make sure everyone had to be under the protection of a Dictator. Even if the dictators would rather have each other's stuff, not having a system that sustains them is an existential crisis.
- CivBase 6mo ago> 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.
- tempaccount5050 6mo agoMaybe they're still mad about systemd.
- loloquwowndueo 6mo agoSystemd was NOT Canonical’s “fault”. They pushed upstart until Debian chose systemd, at that point it made no sense to resist assimilation like all other distros.
- alephnerd 6mo ago> 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 Canonical is a British company and the employees are westerners. That makes them targets in the eyes of Iran. People are forgetting that the Iranian government detests Israel and the entirety of the West. The core principal of the revolution is reversing westoxification (Gharbzadegi) and returning to the norms of the Imam Husayn (Velayat-e Faghih). That's the whole crux of the Islamic Revolution and why the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) exists. Open source and anti-war westerners are viewed opportunistically but with disdain.
- aksss 6mo agoClassic Scorpion and the Frog tale, or the older Farmer and the Snake. https://read.gov/aesop/094.html https://read.gov/aesop/094.html
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- jcgrillo 6mo agojust now: $ snap refresh error: unable to contact snap store
- wing-_-nuts 6mo agoTangent, but I hate snap with the fury of a thousand suns. That single handedly pushed me to pop, then mint.
- jcgrillo 6mo agoYeah it isn't great. I have stuck with Ubuntu because I have some peculiar hardware which is well supported. I have learned to live with it.
- newsoftheday 6mo agoSame, I use Kubuntu but yeah, I do keep snap disabled. Tried it several years ago, can't stand it. I do like Canonical and Ubuntu for servers and of course, Kubuntu for all our home machines, wife loves it too.
- overtone1000 6mo ago313 Team runs arch btw
- ChrisArchitect 6mo agoRelated: Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972213
- nubinetwork 6mo agoThat says resolved, but I had a hell of a time trying to run apt update still...
- pjjpo 6mo agoInteresting - this was randomly in my feed but indeed today, I upgraded my server and didn't know at the time why all the apt requests were so slow. That being said, it sped up to full over time - I wonder if this is actually an effect of the DDoS or they added some infra to throttle at first and eventually determine if an IP is making valid requests.
- remram 6mo agoI had no issue with regular distro update channels (those have mirrors all over) but couldn't get updates from PPAs (i.e. third-party). Feels backwards a bit.
- Animats 6mo agoUbuntu.com seems to be fine right now. A bit slow, maybe. Ubuntu 26.04.LTS is out.
- Havoc 6mo agoSounds like they're picking on easy targets rather than relevant ones. Lame.
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- cineticdaffodil 6mo agoIts 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.
- TheChaplain 6mo agoConsidering the name of the crew, the title would be better off with "Pro-Iran regime". It is a small but important difference.
- ddactic 6mo ago[flagged]