DDoS Attack Takes Ubuntu Websites and Security Services Offline for Over 4 Hours

What happened

Canonical warned that some online sites […] The post DDoS (flooding a service with traffic until it stops responding) Attack Takes Ubuntu Websites and Security Services Offline for Over 4 Hours appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform . Canonical warned that some online sites would be “intermittently unavailable”. Canonical is a software company based in London, and its products and services include Ubuntu.

DDoS Attack Takes Ubuntu Websites The outage extended beyond Ubuntu’s main website, affecting services that publish security information. Ubuntu and Canonical’s websites experienced a sustained DDoS attack, disrupting access to public websites and security information services for four hours and 12 minutes.

Read DDoS Attack Takes Ubuntu Websites and Security Services Offline for Over 4 Hours By Divya October 13, 2026 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Ubuntu and Canonical’s websites experienced a sustained DDoS attack , disrupting access to public websites and security information services for four hours and 12 minutes. At the same time, its teams worked to restore access, but it initially did not provide an estimated recovery time.

The attack impacted several key domains, including canonical.com, ubuntu.com, blog.ubuntu.com, and developer.ubuntu.com, as well as the Ubuntu Security API (the interface one piece of software uses to talk to another) and security notices pages. As a result, access to the Ubuntu Security API and notices pages was impacted, but Ubuntu’s package repositories were not.