Ubuntu services are disrupted after a DDoS attack

Hacktivists have claimed responsibility for removing public-facing tools from Linux Ubuntu, as well as Canonical, the company that develops and maintains the software. The attack began on Thursday, and affected services that Ubuntu users rely on.

“Canonical’s online systems are vulnerable to a breach and we are working to address them. We will provide more information in our official channels as soon as possible,” he said. the company said on his website.

Hackers are believed to have caused a denial of service, or DDoSa crude but often effective attack that involves flooding a heavily populated target until it overwhelms or takes damage.

Ubuntu developers they have been discussing an attack on the unofficial Ubuntu community, claiming that the attack affects the security of the Ubuntu API, and several Ubuntu and Canonical websites. According to the post In the threat intelligence community, DDoS attacks have also made it possible for users to modify and install Ubuntu. TechCrunch confirmed that the update failed to install on a test device running Ubuntu.

As of this writing, the shutdown is still ongoing 20 hours. Canonical did not respond to a request for comment.

Hacktivs who call themselves The Islamic Cyber ​​​​Resistance in Iraq 313 Team claimed on their Telegram channel that they were responsible for the DDoS attack.

The hackers are said to be using Beamed, a DDoS-for-hire service. These types of services, also called booters or stressers, allow anyone to pay to launch a DDoS attack, even if they don’t have the technical skills or equipment necessary to flood people with fake traffic. The DDoS-for-hire service in this case claims to threaten more than 3.5 Tbps of bandwidth, which is about half of the cyberattack’s bandwidth. Cloudflare last year called “the largest DDoS attack on record.”

Over the years, adults such as and the FBI and Europol played a game of whack-a-mole against these services, download and take over domainsand sometimes they arrest the people behind them.