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Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h

https://status.canonical.com/#/incident/KNms6QK9ewuzz-7xUsPsNylV20jEt5kyKsd8A-3ptQEHpOd8VQ40ZQs-KD81fboQXeGZB94okNHdHBGlCv58Sw==
34•jtlebigot•1h ago

Comments

Faaak•49m ago
Tinfoil hat mode: a competitor wants to exploit copy.fail on some ubuntu servers, and is DDoSing canonical so that they can't update and thus patch the vuln
kubb•29m ago
s/competitor/intelligence services/
bouncycastle•28m ago
Seems reasonable to assume it's something to do with the recently publicized exploits. More likely, this could be an extortion attempt by criminals rather than a competitor.
Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL•24m ago
Noticed it because snap didn't work, snap has its own status page just fyi: https://status.snapcraft.io/
someperson•7m ago
I like to imagine it's returning a 500 error response asking you to email rhonda@ubuntu.com
corvad•4m ago
This seems to be pretty targeted, and with the services affected like livepatch and such this could indeed be an actor DDoSing to avoid patches rolling out for copy.fail

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