Canonical Hit by Second DDoS Attack in 2026, Public Websites Disrupted

Reported by Security Affairs (Pierluigi Paganini)

Summary by Cyber Security News12 Oct 2026, 22:02 CET

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Canonical suffered its second DDoS attack this year, disrupting public websites for over four hours while Launchpad and the Snap Store remained online. Ubuntu’s parent company Canonical spent part of last week fighting off a sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the second one to hit its infrastructure this year. The company revealed the attack on October 8 through a post on the Ubuntu Discourse forum.

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