Canonical Websites Disrupted in Second DDoS Attack This Year

What happened

The company confirmed the attack on October 8 in a post on the Ubuntu Discourse forum. The outage hit the main Ubuntu and Canonical websites, including the Ubuntu blog and developer portal The post Canonical Websites Disrupted in Second DDoS (flooding a service with traffic until it stops responding) Attack This Year appeared first on SecurityWeek . Canonical is a software company based in London, and its products and services include Ubuntu.

“Canonical’s websites are under a sustained distributed denial of service attack,” the company said, adding that some services might not be reachable at times. These included ubuntu.com, canonical.com, the Ubuntu blog and developer site, and Ubuntu’s security advisory pages and API (the interface one piece of software uses to talk to another).

Developer-facing services such as Launchpad and the Snap Store did not appear to be affected. Canonical said on October 9 that its team was still bringing affected services back, though most were accessible again.

Ubuntu put the total downtime at a little over four hours. The company has not publicly shared information on the size or origin of the cyberattack.

No one appears to have taken credit for the DDoS attack. Canonical was hit by a more disruptive attack in late April. Launchpad and the Snap Store were among the services taken down, and some users could not install Ubuntu updates.