{"id":237775,"date":"2026-05-01T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/canonical-the-company-that-makes-ubuntu-linux-says-its-web-infrastructure-is-under-a-sustained-cross-border-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:50:09","slug":"canonical-the-company-that-makes-ubuntu-linux-says-its-web-infrastructure-is-under-a-sustained-cross-border-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/canonical-the-company-that-makes-ubuntu-linux-says-its-web-infrastructure-is-under-a-sustained-cross-border-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu Linux, says its web infrastructure is under a ‘sustained, cross-border attack’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu Linux, says its web infrastructure is under a ‘sustained, cross-border attack’<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-01 04:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Canonical, the company behind the most popular Linux distro, says its web infrastructure is currently under a “sustained, cross-border attack.”<\/p>\n

Affected sites and services seem to run across the entire Ubuntu gamut, from its website to its blog and even potentially its repos. According to what user reports I could gleam from online forums\u2014given official status pages are down\u2014the problems have been ongoing for hours even if Canonical only officially commented on it recently.<\/p>\n

Canonical\u2019s web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it.We will provide more information in our official channels as soon as we are able to.May 1, 2026<\/p>\n

Importantly, there are reports of the security repo servers at security.ubuntu.com being either slow or down for many users, and indeed when I tried the website it didn’t load. Repositories are how Ubuntu users get their updates, and the security repo is, of course, a very important one, as it allows users to download and install important security updates and patches.<\/p>\n

Even the page that lists server statuses is disabled by Canonical. It instead reiterates the same message that Canonical posted to X.<\/p>\n

All this follows the disclosure yesterday of a recently discovered vulnerability nicknamed “Copy Fail” which cybersecurity research firm Theori, on Xint.io, explains as meaning the discovery that a “single 732-byte Python script can edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017.”<\/p>\n

It’s not known, however, whether this vulnerability has anything to do with the current attack. In fact, Canonical saying that it’s a “sustained, cross-border attack” could imply it’s not vulnerability-related attack but simply a wide-scale DDoS or something similar. If it is to do with Copy Fail, then perhaps it’s only indirectly so\u2014possibly to prevent updates that fix the vulnerability.<\/p>\n

Cybersecurity company Vercert Analyzer claims that hacktivist group ‘The Islamic…<\/p>\n

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