Servers run by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical were taken offline on Thursday morning and have been down since then, preventing the operating system provider from maintaining normal communications. misrepresentation your main weakness.
Attempts to connect to most Ubuntu and Canonical web pages and download OS updates from Ubuntu servers have consistently failed over the past 24 hours. Updates from mirror sites continued to work normally. Canonical status page said: “Canonical’s web infrastructure is under constant, cross-border attack, and we are working to combat it.” Additionally, Ubuntu and Canonical officials have remained radio silent since the outage began.
A decades-long scourge
A group sympathetic to the Iranian government claimed responsibility for the outage. According to posts on Telegram and other social networks, the group a DDoS attack Using Beam, it claims to test the ability of servers to work under heavy loads, but like other “stressors”, they are actually fronts for services that bad guys pay to delete third-party sites. In recent days, the same pro-Iranian group took credit for DDoS attacks on eBay.
