Snap apps can be installed from Ubuntu Software Malware has been found hiding inside software on the Ubuntu Snap store. A pair of (seemingly normal) apps hosted by the Canonical-backed app hub were discovered to contain a сryptocurrency miner disguised as the “systemd” daemon. The affected apps also shipped an “init script” to auto-load the malicious code on boot and allow it to run in the background on affected systems. Canonical says it has “removed all applications from this author pending further investigations” since learning of the flaw via a Github issue at the weekend. Because the Snap Store doesn’t
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