The U.S. Cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is actively being leveraged in hacking campaigns and could endanger Linux-based servers and datacenters. Organizations running affected major Linux versions are urged to treat it as high risk, as the vulnerability appears to be in use in the wild rather than just a theoretical concern.
Ubuntu and Canonical services suffered outages after a distributed denial-of-service attack claimed by hacktivists. Several Ubuntu and Canonical websites were impacted, and users reportedly couldn’t complete OS updates during the disruption. The incident highlights how even widely used open-source platforms can be disrupted when infrastructure and update paths are targeted at scale.
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