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Malicious Package Found on the Ubuntu Snap Store
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<blockquote data-quote="yitworths" data-source="post: 735583" data-attributes="member: 36772"><p><a href="https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/05/malware-found-in-ubuntu-snap-store.html" target="_blank">Malware Found on the Ubuntu Snap Store</a> -Source: LINUXUPRISING</p><p></p><p>How many of us were expecting this???</p><p></p><p>An Ubuntu user has <a href="https://github.com/canonical-websites/snapcraft.io/issues/651" target="_blank">spotted</a> today a cryptocurrency miner hidden in the source code of an Ubuntu snap package hosted on the official Ubuntu Snap Store.</p><p></p><p>One of the app's name is 2048buntu, a clone of the popular 2024 game, packaged as an Ubuntu <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snappy_(package_manager)" target="_blank">snap</a> & allegedly uploaded by <strong>user Nicolas Tomb.</strong> </p><p></p><p>New app store in the town of malware infections. New Age of Security will be considered just as a fairy tale, it may make you feel good but the problem is that it doesn't exist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yitworths, post: 735583, member: 36772"] [URL='https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/05/malware-found-in-ubuntu-snap-store.html']Malware Found on the Ubuntu Snap Store[/URL] -Source: LINUXUPRISING How many of us were expecting this??? An Ubuntu user has [URL='https://github.com/canonical-websites/snapcraft.io/issues/651']spotted[/URL] today a cryptocurrency miner hidden in the source code of an Ubuntu snap package hosted on the official Ubuntu Snap Store. One of the app's name is 2048buntu, a clone of the popular 2024 game, packaged as an Ubuntu [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snappy_(package_manager)']snap[/URL] & allegedly uploaded by [B]user Nicolas Tomb.[/B] New app store in the town of malware infections. New Age of Security will be considered just as a fairy tale, it may make you feel good but the problem is that it doesn't exist. [/QUOTE]
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