HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to Linux@lemmy.ml · 4 days agoPro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedownwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down10
arrow-up149arrow-down1external-linkPro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedownwww.theregister.comHaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to Linux@lemmy.ml · 4 days agomessage-square7linkfedilink
minus-squarePika@hikki.teamlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 days agoUbuntu has large corporate interest and is managed by a private company earning dozens of millions of dollars annually. There is a financial interest to be made here.
minus-squareadarza@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agocanonical is barely in the black–and only recently so. there isn’t anything there, except for the ‘free publicity’ that comes from doing the attack.
minus-squareHubertManne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoyeah seems like a strange target outside of maybe convenience.
Ubuntu has large corporate interest and is managed by a private company earning dozens of millions of dollars annually. There is a financial interest to be made here.
canonical is barely in the black–and only recently so. there isn’t anything there, except for the ‘free publicity’ that comes from doing the attack.
yeah seems like a strange target outside of maybe convenience.