Maybe it's because Ubuntu is relatively easy to take down? They wouldn't host on a cloud provider for marketing reasons. At the same time, they just released Resolute, so there is a lot more legit traffic on their servers, which means more eyeballs.

But, yeah, definitely not a target that makes you think the Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq, whatever that is, has the world's good in mind.

My guess is they want to delay updates, so they have more time to exploit vulnerabilities of systems that are overdue with updates and can't because of the attack.

This post basically says it was just extortion: https://lemmy.zip/post/63741123

Jihad against snaps

Tie me a rocket, I'm ready.

I'll bet it it was the only well-known name they were able to attack with any success.

ubuntu employees must be so confused right now, tbh would have made more sense if they’d not said who they were, could assume just typical russians or script kiddies but this is just confusing