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Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack
Iraq's 313 Team executed a DDoS attack on Ubuntu and Canonical infrastructure. Outages lasted over 20 hours, blocking access to security APIs and update servers, preventing servers from installing or updating packages. Attackers used Beamed, a DDoS-for-hire service that generated 3.5 Tbps of traffic.
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