Canonical Suffers Second DDoS Attack in 2026, Disrupting Websites for Over Four Hours

Canonical, the parent company of Ubuntu, suffered its second distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in 2026, with the most recent incident occurring last week. The attack disrupted the company's public websites for over four hours. During the attack, Launchpad and the Snap Store services remained online and operational. This marks the second DDoS attack targeting Canonical's infrastructure within the same year.