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Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown
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https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/canonical_confirms_ubuntu_infrastructure_under/?=0
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But why? They must really hate snaps…
I mean…
tf does this have to do with iran?
Person A: Red Hat has massive US military contracts for autonomous weapons that are being used against Iran!
Person B: Yeah but they have IBM’s infrastructure too
Person C: There’s this much smaller company that we might be able to take down. They’re in the same industry.
Person A: Do it!
Person B: But do they have and military contracts like that?
Person A: SHUT UP I SAID DDOS THEM
lmaoo but it might actually kinda makes sense
i wouldn’t be surprised if iranian infra also depends on redhat or ubuntu though
I tried looking into it but I did not find that much info. there are some Iranian hacking groups linked to the state or are state funded and 313 team seems to be linked to those. This is one of the better overview articles I found:
https://www.levelblue.com/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/levelblue-spiderlabs-breaks-down-the-role-of-cyber-operations-taken-in-the-iran-crisis
… attentionseeking, you know, for the cause? I dunno, honestly. Boggles the mind.
tbh it kinda feels like it’s completely unrelated to iran, maybe this attacker group is trying to defame(? idk the correct word) iran?
So, basically a false flag?
I suspected LLM scrappers when hearing about the DDOS attack. Those are doing a continuous DDOS on many projects.
https://piefed.social/c/technology@lemmy.world/p/2028755/the-day-i-logged-1-in-every-2000-public-ipv4-visualizing-the-ai-scraper-ddos-vulpinecit
Fuck Ubuntu and their selling out. Canonical bitched out ages ago. Hope those Iran folks are okay though. What a mess.
I get not liking Canonical, but how does that justify a random Pro-Iran group DDoSing them? Did Canonical do something that specifically harmed Iranians?
Did Iran do anything that specifically harmed Americans, before US decidingt to blow shit up?
Is Canonical a US company? Why blame them for the US being shit?
Hasn’t the UK been helping USA with this “war”
What does this have anything to do with Canonical?
Hasn’t the UK been helping with this “war”. If so, then they are just putting pressure where they can
Their pressure is doing nothing to stop the war then. Canonical is not the UK. They might be located in the UK, but attacking them does nothing to the UK government.
Also, none of this has anything to do with the US attacking Iran, so I still don’t understand what that has to do with anything.
th has Canonical to do with the UK? They are from South África, not the UK
Its the old…Canonical complains to UK government, UK government maybe listens
Probably sold everyone’s ahit to fascists lie everyone else. Honestly, I can’t recall why I don’t favor them. I formed that opinion probably over 15 years ago.