Ubuntu Currently Suffering from Sustained DDoS Attack

Ubuntu Currently Suffering from Sustained DDoS Attack(phoronix.com)

14 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 5 comments

nateb2022 3 hours ago |

Cloudflare already mirrors Arch and Debian (https://cloudflaremirrors.com/) maybe they could help with Ubuntu too (might as well toss Fedora in there haha)

Edit: Facebook mirrors a lotta distros: https://mirror.facebook.net/ also I just realized it's a DDoS on the Canonical security API and ISOs not the packages, but I suppose those could be mirrored somehow

wps 4 hours ago |

What does someone get out of DDOSing a project like this? What even is the motive

KZerda 4 hours ago | |

A DDoS like this, probably ransom. A group asking for x thousand or million dollars or they take you offline for a while. Another possibility is someone upset over Ubuntu's direction and is trying to "convince" them to do certain actions. Sadly, people are petty and greedy.

wps 3 hours ago | | |

That makes sense. Weaker target that happens to have funds. Extremely unethical, but crime never cared for that.

paaloeye 4 hours ago |

Russians or Chinese?