But why? They must really hate snaps...
this post was submitted on 02 May 2026
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I mean...
tf does this have to do with iran?
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
lmaoo but it might actually kinda makes sense
i wouldn't be surprised if iranian infra also depends on redhat or ubuntu though
... attentionseeking, you know, for the cause? I dunno, honestly. Boggles the mind.
tbh it kinda feels like it's completely unrelated to iran, maybe this attacker group is trying to defame(? idk the correct word) iran?
So, basically a false flag?
Yeah, sort of. Even the false flag is false flag.
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:
...[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.
I suspected LLM scrappers when hearing about the DDOS attack. Those are doing a continuous DDOS on many projects.