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Malware Found In the Ubuntu Snap Store (linuxuprising.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the where-there's-a-will-there's-a-way dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Linux Uprising: Oh, snap! Just because some packages are available to install directly from the Ubuntu Software Center doesn't make them safe. This is proved by a recent discovery of malware in some snap packages from the Ubuntu Snaps Store.

At least two of the snap packages, 2048buntu and hextris, uploaded to the Ubuntu Snaps Store by user Nicolas Tomb, contained malware. All packages by Nicolas have since been removed from the Ubuntu Snaps Store, "pending further investigations." The report comes from a bug which mentions that the 2048buntu snap package (and other packages by Nicolas Tomb) contains a hidden cryptocurrency miner inside.

2 of 90 comments (clear)

  1. We Finally found the REAL Tomb Raider by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He will be tried as a miner, though

  2. Re:People who live in glass houses....Bounceback. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hear they often also wear straight jackets.