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

44 points by jtlebigot 3 hours ago | 9 comments

TonyTrapp 10 minutes ago

While the timing with the copy.fail patches mentioned by a few comments here seems suspicious indeed, I have seen this repeating over the last few weeks: packages.ubuntu.com was hardly reachable on some days, causing apt-get to take forever to update the system. They have been struggling hard recently, it seems. Best of luck to the people having to deal with this mess on a holiday!

Faaak 2 hours 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

yallpendantools 15 minutes ago

Double tinfoil hat mode: an attacker learned of my plan to finally update my personal computer out of 20.04 today and is DDoSing canonical so I can't do that and I remain vulnerable to the backdoors they've found.

The plot thickens...

kubb 2 hours ago

s/competitor/intelligence services/

bouncycastle 2 hours 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.

corvad 37 minutes 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

Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 57 minutes ago

Noticed it because snap didn't work, snap has its own status page just fyi: https://status.snapcraft.io/

ForHackernews 27 minutes ago

Frustrating because the Slack snap is broken so every day you have to downgrade it and I guess you can't without connectivity.

This might be the incentive I need to finally purge snap.

someperson 40 minutes ago

I like to imagine it's returning a 500 error response asking you to email rhonda@ubuntu.com