Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown

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https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/canonical_confirms_ubuntu_infrastructure_under/

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I suppose it is a very effective approach to attack a lot of IT infrastructure. Like how much CI and build systems rely on you being able to pull an ubuntu image and run some apt on it. You halt build systems, cloud deployment, and probably much more.

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  1. DDoS a free and open source operating system.
  2. ????
  3. Profit.
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Ubuntu has large corporate interest and is managed by a private company earning dozens of millions of dollars annually. There is a financial interest to be made here.

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canonical is barely in the black–and only recently so. there isn’t anything there, except for the ‘free publicity’ that comes from doing the attack.

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yeah seems like a strange target outside of maybe convenience.

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Clearly they’re doing it to save people from Ubuntu. Also what’s a canonical account even for?

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