Comment by at-fates-hands
8 hours ago
Canonical is a UK company, so its a symbolic attack against a Western agent. Ubuntu is used by a lot of tech companies so they knew this attack would get a lot of visibility in the tech community. I'm assuming they think this will garner support from the tech community as well.
Exactly as described in "how to win friends and influence people". Break their stuff and extort money.
> I'm assuming they think this will garner support from the tech community as well.
I don't understand their thinking if this is the case. DDoSing widely used project is going to turn people against you, not generate support.
Still it feels quite odd that from all western tech companies (and several more influential than Canonical) they chose precisely one that is highly involved with open source
All these comments saying it's just a salient target are making it up. Canonical is a military contractor. They literally have an entire DoD team. That's why they're being targeted. They're far from the only military contractor to be targeted by Iranian hackers this year
Is this written down anywhere? All I can find is an announcement from the group and a follow-up message threatening Canonical if they do not negotiate.
What does a DDoS accomplish if the contracts are signed and a team embedded?
Why take down security.ubuntu.com? Surely even cyber jihadis need security updates?
Welcome to war. This was why the Qatar attack was so destabilizing.
Iran's position is that any organization that is in any shape or form aligned with the US and West is a target.
And being an anti-war westerner won't help you. People are forgetting that the Iranian government detests Israel and the entirety of the West.
The core principals of the revolution which is the IRGC's entire ideological basis is reversing westoxification (Gharbzadegi) and returning to the norms of the Imam Husayn (Velayat-e Faghih).
Judging from their behavior against their own people and their Islamic neighbors, it seems like the IRGC's hatred isn't limited to the West.
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