Canonical under sustained DDoS attack as Ubuntu 26 releases — Iranian group 313 Team claims responsibility Find your download mirrors here. The meatspace war with Iran has been spilling into cyberspace as well, and the latest casualty is Canonical. The company behind the ever-popular Ubuntu Linux is in a spot of bother, as the majority of its infrastructure is being hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The attack has reportedly been claimed by Iranian ne'er-do-wells 313 Team, also known as the Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq. The attackers requested a virtual meeting with the Canonical staff under threat of continued attacks, but there have been no other public developments. The most obvious result is that Canonical's, er, canonical Ubuntu download and update mirrors worldwide are sluggish or down entirely, as is the main website. The attack extends to Launchpad, the Snap store, Canonical SSO, and other related services. Thankfully, there are no reports of security compromises affecting package repositories or ISO images, so whichever download spot you find should be safe. Intentionally or not, this attack comes hot on the heels of the release of Ubuntu 26 LTS, dubbed Resolute Raccoon. As its name and even version number imply, this is a release with an extended support window, meaning it'll be the one installed in servers and workstations worldwide.Article continues below Much like yours truly found out yesterday, you may find it difficult to get a hold of Ubuntu 26, package updates, or even the handy WSL2 image. The Linux community is large and spread out, though, so any one of the hundreds of the non-Canonical (pun intended) will suffice. You can find one of the mirrors in the list at launchpad.net; if that link fails to load, you can consult the version on the Wayback Machine here. If you have a torrent client handy, here are the links to the desktop x64 release and the live server x64 version. Some techies hypothesized that this attack could be related to the disastrous Copy Fail vulnerability, to which most distros, including the extant Ubuntu 24, are vulnerable. That premise is a little shaky, as in the grand scheme of things, just stopping people from updating Ubuntu isn't a world-ender, plus power users and competent sysadmins will apply a workaround or just find a mirror regardless. Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. Bruno Ferreira is a contributing writer for Tom's Hardware. He has decades of experience with PC hardware and assorted sundries, alongside a career as a developer. He's obsessed with detail and has a tendency to ramble on the topics he loves. When not doing that, he's usually playing games, or at live music shows and festivals.
Canonical under sustained DDoS attack as Ubuntu 26 releases — Iranian group 313 Team claims responsibility Find your download mirrors here. The meatspace war with Iran has been spilling into cyberspace as well, and the latest casualty is Canonical. The company behind the ever-pop…
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A tanker identified as the Kaifan was struck by an unknown projectile northeast of Oman’s Limah in the Strait of Hormuz, according to a July 21 report from UK Maritime Trade Operations. No ships were observed transiting the strait that day. Attribution of the strike and links to prior incidents have not been confirmed by the vessel’s owner.
Goldman Sachs has projected Brent crude averaging $80 per barrel in the fourth quarter and $75 in the following year, conditional on reduced Middle East tensions, while noting upside risks from potential shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz or Red Sea.
Brent prices rose above $91 per barrel amid recent U.S.-Iran exchanges and Houthi threats to Saudi shipments before edging lower on Tuesday. A senior Iranian official told Reuters that mediators had proposed a 10-day ceasefire to preserve an interim agreement.
Opening summary: Iran claims attacks on strait of Hormuz ships amid fresh US strikes Welcome to our live coverage of the latest developments in the Middle East crisis. Iran attacked a tanker in the strait of Hormuz early on Tuesday, forcing its crew to abandon the ship, as Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis announced they were imposing an immediate maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea after the two sides traded fire last week for the first time in years.
A Houthi official said the Bab al-Mandeb strait – at the southern end of the Red Sea, through which about 12% of the world’s trade usually passes – would be closed to the Saudis in response to the kingdom’s “unjust blockade on Yemenis for over 10 years”.
Saudi Arabia said it would take “all necessary measures to protect its vessels in accordance with international law”. A 10 consecutive night of US airstrikes has not compelled Tehran to loosen its grip on the strait of Hormuz, a vital route for global energy supplies.
But even as Iran’s president said the country had returned “full-scale war”, the Iranian interior minister travelled to Pakistan – a key mediator in the conflict – for talks. In key developments: The latest US strikes came hours after Donald Trump said Iran would pay “many times over” for killing US soldiers after multiple service members were killed in action over the weekend.
A tanker came under attack early Tuesday in the Hormuz strait off Oman, forcing the crew to abandon the vessel, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations centre said. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed the attack as well as two other attacks on ships in the waterway on Monday.
The US military’s Central Command said its latest airstrikes were to “degrade” Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping in the strait and included hitting military command centres and missile and drone launch sites. Iranian media reported strikes in parts of the country including Bandar Abbas, Tabriz and Bushehr, home to the country’s only operational civilian nuclear power.
Iran’s launched attacks in response against Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan, which all host US forces. Oil prices softened after hitting their highest levels in more than a month in the previous session. Brent crude futures eased 0.4% to $88.87 a barrel by 0052 GMT on Tuesday while US West Texas Intermediate crude for September delivery was steady at $82.
47 a barrel. Democrats have seized on the deaths of three US troops killed in Iranian strikes to urge Trump to urgently reverse his resumption of the war with Iran amid widespread anxiety over climbing casualties. The Lebanese army began taking charge of security in three southern villages, the US said, as a deal to secure an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon and the disarmament of Hezbollah faced its first test on the ground.
US forces struck the tanker Settebello in the Gulf of Oman on June 10, killing three Indian crew members when munitions hit the engine room and adjacent areas. Maritime tracking data indicate the vessel had transported Iranian oil under US sanctions for several years and conducted offshore transfers prior to the strike.
The US military described the action as a precision operation, while reports note the ship was stationary at the time.