Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

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Post by jtlebigot » Fri, May 01, 2026, 7:44 AM UTC

Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS
status.canonical.com

Re: Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

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Post by Faaak » Fri, May 01, 2026, 8:34 AM UTC

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

Re: Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

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Post by kubb » Fri, May 01, 2026, 8:54 AM UTC

Faaak wrote: post #2

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

s/competitor/intelligence services/

Re: Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

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Post by bouncycastle » Fri, May 01, 2026, 8:55 AM UTC

Faaak wrote: post #2

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

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.

Re: Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

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Post by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL » Fri, May 01, 2026, 8:59 AM UTC

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

Re: Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

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Post by someperson » Fri, May 01, 2026, 9:16 AM UTC

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

Re: Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

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Post by corvad » Fri, May 01, 2026, 9:19 AM UTC

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

Re: Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

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Post by ForHackernews » Fri, May 01, 2026, 9:29 AM UTC

Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL wrote: post #5

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

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.

Re: Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

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Post by yallpendantools » Fri, May 01, 2026, 9:40 AM UTC

Faaak wrote: post #2

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

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...

Re: Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

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Post by TonyTrapp » Fri, May 01, 2026, 9:45 AM UTC

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!