Overview
- Canonical confirmed a sustained distributed denial‑of‑service attack that began Thursday and knocked ubuntu.com and the public status page offline for hours.
- The disruption left some users unable to download Ubuntu releases or log into Canonical accounts, with reports of slow or unreachable security repositories.
- TechCrunch verified update and install failures on a test Ubuntu device, which could delay security patches for users, with no confirmed link to the recent “Copy Fail” Linux bug.
- A group calling itself the Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq, or 313 Team, claimed responsibility on Telegram and demanded Canonical make contact in an extortion message.
- The group said it used Beamed, a DDoS‑for‑hire service that lets anyone pay to flood targets with junk traffic, lowering the barrier to large‑scale outages.