Servers run by Ubuntu and its moms and dad business Canonical were knocked offline on Thursday early morning and have actually stayed down since, a circumstance that’s avoiding the OS company from interacting generally following the messed up disclosure of a significant vulnerability.

Efforts to link to many Ubuntu and Canonical websites and download OS updates from Ubuntu servers have actually regularly stopped working over the previous 24 hours. Updates from mirror websites, nevertheless, have actually continued to work usually. A Canonical status page stated: “Canonical’s web facilities is under a continual, cross-border attack and we are working to resolve it.” Besides that, Ubuntu and Canonical authorities have actually preserved radio silence because the failure started.

A decades-long scourge

A group supportive to the Iranian federal government has actually taken credit for the failure. According to posts on Telegram and other social networks, the group is accountable for a DDoS attack utilizing Beam, an operation that declares to evaluate the capability of servers to run under heavy loads however, like other “stress factors,” are, in truth, fronts for services rascals spend for to remove third-party websites. In current days, the exact same pro-Iran group has actually taken credit for DDoSes on eBay.