Ubuntu Confirms Thursday's Distributed Denial of Service Attack Against Its Web Infrastructure (phoronix.com)
(Saturday October 10, 2026 @11:34PM (EditorDavid)
from the downs-and-uptime dept.)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/10/11/0142235/ubuntu-confirms-thursdays-distributed-denial-of-service-attack-against-its-web-infrastructure
- Source link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-DDoS-October-2026
On Thursday those trying to access the Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and similar Ubuntu resources on Thursday found the site "inoperable," [1]reports Phoronix , with the disruption confirmed as a distributed denial of service attack.
"Our team is working diligently to resolve the incident," according to a [2]Thursday post on Ubuntu Discourse — followed by a later announcement. "At this time our team continues to work on restoring affected services, most of them are now available. We appreciate your patience and understanding." [3]Ubuntu's status page shows the Ubuntu.com outage lasting for 2 hours and 27 minutes on Friday — though with four-hour outages Wednesday (and other outages affecting other Ubuntu sites).
Today "All components are Operational," the status page reports.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-DDoS-October-2026
[2] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ddos-on-canonical-and-ubuntu-websites/89064
[3] https://status.canonical.com/
"Our team is working diligently to resolve the incident," according to a [2]Thursday post on Ubuntu Discourse — followed by a later announcement. "At this time our team continues to work on restoring affected services, most of them are now available. We appreciate your patience and understanding." [3]Ubuntu's status page shows the Ubuntu.com outage lasting for 2 hours and 27 minutes on Friday — though with four-hour outages Wednesday (and other outages affecting other Ubuntu sites).
Today "All components are Operational," the status page reports.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-DDoS-October-2026
[2] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ddos-on-canonical-and-ubuntu-websites/89064
[3] https://status.canonical.com/
Canonical's expertise is not anti-DDOS (Score:2)
Canonical had a previous DDOS attack. Apparently they chose not to engage one of the various DDOS prevention services (Cloudflare is well known, but they are not the only solution provider in this space). "Fool me once, shame on you. Shame we twice, shame on me." So, shame on Canonical.