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cm0002 ( cm0002@literature.cafe )  to Linux@programming.dev · 6 months ago

Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown

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Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown

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cm0002 ( cm0002@literature.cafe )  to Linux@programming.dev · 6 months ago
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: 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming
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  • lokalhorst ( lokalhorst@feddit.org ) 
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    But why? They must really hate snaps…

    • bright_side_ ( bright_side_@piefed.world ) 
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      I mean…

  • hexagonwin ( hexagonwin@lemmy.today ) 
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    tf does this have to do with iran?

    • lengau ( lengau@midwest.social ) 
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      Person A: Red Hat has massive US military contracts for autonomous weapons that are being used against Iran!

      Person B: Yeah but they have IBM’s infrastructure too

      Person C: There’s this much smaller company that we might be able to take down. They’re in the same industry.

      Person A: Do it!

      Person B: But do they have and military contracts like that?

      Person A: SHUT UP I SAID DDOS THEM

      • hexagonwin ( hexagonwin@lemmy.today ) 
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        lmaoo but it might actually kinda makes sense

        i wouldn’t be surprised if iranian infra also depends on redhat or ubuntu though

    • sidebro ( sidebro@lemmy.zip ) 
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      … attentionseeking, you know, for the cause? I dunno, honestly. Boggles the mind.

      • hexagonwin ( hexagonwin@lemmy.today ) 
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        tbh it kinda feels like it’s completely unrelated to iran, maybe this attacker group is trying to defame(? idk the correct word) iran?

        • sidebro ( sidebro@lemmy.zip ) 
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          So, basically a false flag?

    • bright_side_ ( bright_side_@piefed.world ) 
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      I tried looking into it but I did not find that much info. there are some Iranian hacking groups linked to the state or are state funded and 313 team seems to be linked to those. This is one of the better overview articles I found:

      https://www.levelblue.com/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/levelblue-spiderlabs-breaks-down-the-role-of-cyber-operations-taken-in-the-iran-crisis

  • IanTwenty ( IanTwenty@piefed.social ) 
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    …[the group] has claimed responsibility for similar DDoS attacks on the likes of eBay’s Japan and US divisions, as well as BlueSky in just the past month alone.

    Why the group is targeting London-based Canonical remains unclear and no reason was given via its Telegram channel. It is presumably because Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distros.

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    I suspected LLM scrappers when hearing about the DDOS attack. Those are doing a continuous DDOS on many projects.

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  • ScoffingLizard ( ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    Fuck Ubuntu and their selling out. Canonical bitched out ages ago. Hope those Iran folks are okay though. What a mess.

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      I get not liking Canonical, but how does that justify a random Pro-Iran group DDoSing them? Did Canonical do something that specifically harmed Iranians?

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        Did Iran do anything that specifically harmed Americans, before US decidingt to blow shit up?

        • TehPers ( TehPers@beehaw.org ) 
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          What does this have anything to do with Canonical?

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            Hasn’t the UK been helping with this “war”. If so, then they are just putting pressure where they can

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              Their pressure is doing nothing to stop the war then. Canonical is not the UK. They might be located in the UK, but attacking them does nothing to the UK government.

              Also, none of this has anything to do with the US attacking Iran, so I still don’t understand what that has to do with anything.

              • BCsven ( BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 
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                Its the old…Canonical complains to UK government, UK government maybe listens

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                  @BCsven @TehPers
                  I use Ubuntu because i like the easy usage… but I dislike USA/UK and Israels behaviors. So I am in the middle of nowhere. It’s always the same, none of the good projects which are fitted into a company is given away for free… we always pay with: less freedom, our data or some other useful stuff - isn’t it?

              • elkien ( elkien@lemmy.today ) 
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                th has Canonical to do with the UK? They are from South África, not the UK

                • TehPers ( TehPers@beehaw.org ) 
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                  Canonical is headquartered in London. It is a UK company, unless I’m missing something?

        • Itsamelemmy ( Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip ) 
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          Is Canonical a US company? Why blame them for the US being shit?

          • BCsven ( BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 
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            Hasn’t the UK been helping USA with this “war”

      • ScoffingLizard ( ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        Probably sold everyone’s ahit to fascists lie everyone else. Honestly, I can’t recall why I don’t favor them. I formed that opinion probably over 15 years ago.

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