Rachel RawlingsMy unease with snap, and in particular apt wrappers that install snaps, made manifest.
https://linuxsecurity.com/news/hackscracks/crypto-stealing-malware-hits-snap-packages
fosstopia 🇩🇪Snap Store: Angriffe auf Publisher erschüttern Sicherheit https://fosstopia.de/snap-store-sicherheit/ #Canonical #Snap #SnapContainer #SnapSoftware #SnapStore #Snapcraft #SoftwareContainer #Ubuntu
Alan PopeMalware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
#linux #ubuntu #snapcraft
Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijac...
Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijac...
Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
tl;dr: There’s a relentless campaign by scammers to publish malware in the Canonical Snap Store. Some gets caught by automated filters, but plenty slips through. Recently, these miscreants have changed tactics - they’re now registering expired domains belonging to legitimate snap publishers, taking over their accounts, and pushing malicious updates to previously trustworthy applications. This is a significant escalation. Context Snaps are compressed, cryptographically signed, revertable software packages for Linux desktops, servers, and embedded devices.
popeyMalware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
#linux #ubuntu #snapcraft
https://blog.popey.com/2026/01/malware-purveyors-taking-over-published-snap-email-domains/
#linux #ubuntu #snapcraft
https://blog.popey.com/2026/01/malware-purveyors-taking-over-published-snap-email-domains/
Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
tl;dr: There’s a relentless campaign by scammers to publish malware in the Canonical Snap Store. Some gets caught by automated filters, but plenty slips through. Recently, these miscreants have changed tactics - they’re now registering expired domains belonging to legitimate snap publishers, taking over their accounts, and pushing malicious updates to previously trustworthy applications. This is a significant escalation. Context Snaps are compressed, cryptographically signed, revertable software packages for Linux desktops, servers, and embedded devices.
The whale𝗦𝗻𝗮𝗽𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁:
https://thewhale.cc/posts/snapcraft
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Oh dear. How does this get through any kind of validation!?
#linux #snapcraft
snapcraft.io/publisher/te...
Oh dear. How does this get through any kind of validation!?
#linux #snapcraft
The Bad People are repeatedly, successfully uploading crypto malware to the #Linux #snapcraft Snap Store today! Way more than usual. Most masquerade as basic apps, then upload their malware as an update.
snapscope.popey.com/
The Bad People are repeatedly, successfully uploading crypto malware to the #Linux #snapcraft Snap Store today! Way more than usual. Most masquerade as basic apps, then upload their malware as an update.
Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Runner up in "problematic downstream/distros packaging behavior" is #Canonical insisting on packaging old buggy versions in #Ubuntu using their endemic #Snap format. Ex.: https://snapcraft.io/gnome-calendar
It'd be really nice if they'd stop doing that, this is absolutely detrimental to the app's developers.
#SnapCraft creates confusion, until users eventually go out of their way to surgically remove it from their desktop OS in the same way Raiden rips out spines to acquire electrolytes.
