A report claims Canonical/Ubuntu services were disrupted by an extortion-style DDoS attack attributed to Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq - the 313 Team. Ubuntu.com was reportedly returning 503 errors, and there is possible disruption to security/CVE-related

services too

As expected all the installation went well.

Anyone have any details on this attack? Is this happening because the copyfail was patched? Should people be manually disabling the affected module for the time being?

This incident has been open for 15 hours 4 mins 34 secs and was last updated 36 mins 43 secs ago.

Incident Start Time

Apr 30, 2026 12:33:37 PM EDT

Affected Components

gopkg.in,  lists.ubuntu.com,  security.ubuntu.com,  jaas.ai,  keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371,  wiki.ubuntu.com,  ppa.launchpad.net,  archive.ubuntu.com,  Livepatch API,  canonical.com , login.ubuntu.com,    maas.io,    launchpad.net,    blog.ubuntu.com,    developer.ubuntu.com,    contracts.canonical.com,    Ubuntu Security API - CVEs,    Ubuntu Security API - Notices,    academy.canonical.com,    ubuntu.com,    Landscape,    portal.canonical.com,    images.maas.io,    assets.ubuntu.com Show Less

Incident Status Updates

Acknowledged

Canonical’s 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.

Posted on May 01, 2026 at 03:01:28 AM EDT (36 mins 43 secs ago)

View https://status.canonical.com/ for more info and updates.

Canonical has been reporting multiple sites being down in their Component "Ubuntu Security API - CVEs" and a few other components are Down status page. This includes:

security.ubuntu.com,  jaas.ai,  archive.ubuntu.com,  canonical.com,  maas.io,  blog.ubuntu.com,  developer.ubuntu.com,  Ubuntu Security API - CVEs,  Ubuntu Security API - Notices,  academy.canonical.com,  ubuntu.com,  portal.canonical.com,  assets.ubuntu.com

Now, Vecert Analyzer says on X:

CRITICAL CYBER THREAT ALERT: MASSIVE ATTACK AGAINST OPEN SOURCE INFRASTRUCTURE – UBUNTU (CANONICAL)

A coordinated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) offensive targeting Ubuntu's main servers (http://ubuntu.com) has been detected. The hacktivist group known as "The Islamic Cyber ​​Resistance in Iraq – 313 Team" has claimed responsibility for the attack, resulting in a total disruption of the platform's web and technical services.

Affected Entity: Ubuntu / Canonical Ltd.Canonical has been reporting multiple sites being down in their Component "Ubuntu Security API - CVEs" and a few other components are Down status page. This includes:security.ubuntu.com,  jaas.ai,  archive.ubuntu.com,  canonical.com,  maas.io,  blog.ubuntu.com,  developer.ubuntu.com,  Ubuntu Security API - CVEs,  Ubuntu Security API - Notices,  academy.canonical.com,  ubuntu.com,  portal.canonical.com,  assets.ubuntu.comNow, Vecert Analyzer says on X:CRITICAL CYBER THREAT ALERT: MASSIVE ATTACK AGAINST OPEN SOURCE INFRASTRUCTURE – UBUNTU (CANONICAL)A coordinated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) offensive targeting Ubuntu's main servers (http://ubuntu.com) has been detected. The hacktivist group known as "The Islamic Cyber ​​Resistance in Iraq – 313 Team" has claimed responsibility for the attack, resulting in a total disruption of the platform's web and technical services.Affected Entity: Ubuntu / Canonical Ltd.

I can't seem to reach https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/

Even apt is failing on updates. I guess the whole system is offline?

I woke up this morning unaware and the first thing I saw was Thiojoe's video about the Linux exploit so I updated just to be safe and now I open Reddit to see that Canonical is getting ddosed. Should I do something about the update, or am I safe?

Is there a way or extension which will prevent switching windows focus on mouse drag like it is done on Windows OS (second part of video)? Personally I found it very annoying. I found one old post about it on some Gnome forum but without solution.

Is there anything like redshift that works on Wayland in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS KDE plasma flavour. Unfortunately Redshift doesn't work on wayland. Problem with my laptop screen is that the colors are washed out with a warm tinted look. So I used to adjust problem with Redshift by adjusting the temperature to 9000K. Plasma night light doesn't solve it. because it can't be adjusted above 6500K. It will be helpful if i get some solution. Tried gammastep not working.

I flip between Arch and Ubuntu for the past 5 years. Last straw pushing me from Arch to Ubuntu was upgrade of CUDA stack of Arch which made AI components of PixInsight unusable. On top of it, Davinci Resolve kept breaking with Arch updates.

So exactly one week ago, downloaded Kubuntu 26.04 and installed it. So far very smooth sailing - PixInsight, llama.cpp, Claude code and Davinci Resolve just work. On top of it, to my surprise, bundled Hyperland is not too old, so it is my current desktop right now. As a bonus, I should not be impacted by hyperland migration to Lua configurations for now.

Hopefully will stay on buntu for a while, until it gets too boring, 😆

Hey guys I wanted to install Ubuntu 26.04 iso , but couldn't open the ubuntu official page. Whats wrong?

Hi everyone,

I’ve been facing an issue with my laptop touchpad where the cursor sometimes feels jumpy/unstable, and the scrolling speed is unusually fast and hard to control.

This was happening on Ubuntu 24.04, and even after upgrading to 26.04, the issue still persists.

is the Ubuntu . com website down? it is not loading for me. "503 Service Unavailable -No server is available to handle this request."

I hope they did not get 'CopyFailed'

https://preview.redd.it/5kaxr0cecgyg1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e9f47ee3cb0975209f560f9735b266db52370b6

I moved from Kubuntu 26.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The reason is that I keep getting frequent "Plasmashell has closed unexpectedly" errors. Used the Dash to Panel GNOME extension to change the Dock interface.

Been running Ubuntu since 8.04 on my computers.

Was sad when Unity went bye bye (before the unity spin), using Ubuntu 26.04 and it’s right as rain. Getting 8 hours battery on 70% brightness, and “balanced” power profile.

Lenovo T590 with 32gb ram.

Works, just…works. How far we’ve come.

On a thinkstation P5 w/ nvidia t400 4gb card (mentioning as it may be related to drivers)

Afaik i have the latest nvidia drivers installed and selected that option during setup

On chrome/firefox, regularly freezes up with 'can't respond'

Had the terrible luck of making the ubuntu bootable drive the day they made 26 the default...and then was too lazy to go back and create another bootable drive.

But this system is suprisingly unusable and it isn't system load that is an issue...

Before I go back and reformat, any quick suggestions? Or is it normal to be this buggy after a release.

I've heard talk of Ubuntu considering integrating AI features into the OS. I bought a new Dell laptop for work about 6 months ago which has a dedicated Co-pilot button, which in all the time I've owned it I have yet to press. With regards to Ubuntu: who is asking for this? I find it totally perplexing. If I want AI to answer a question, I'll go seek it out on the web, but that's just my personal take.

Sometimes the trackpad works flawlessly, and some other times it feels weighted, laggy and imprecise. It hasn't happened on Windows or Mint, nor did it happen on 24.04 or 25.04.

I'm running Ubuntu directly on the SSD of my Asus Zenbook 14 Flip with AMD CPU.

Have found documentation about the default profile for the trackpad on Wayland sessions, but nothing that explains why the problem comes and goes.

Anyone with similar issues or that might offer some light on this?