Snap Store Restricts Uploads Following Possible Security Issue - OMG! Ubuntu
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Canonical is enacting manual reviews for all newly registered uploads to its Snap Store following what it describes as a 'potential security incident'.

Canonical is enacting manual reviews for all newly registered uploads to its Snap Store following what it describes as a ‘potential security incident’.

In this instance it appears that folks have uploaded apps purporting to be official apps/tools for crypto ledger tool Ledger and these apps were able to get folks backups codes (which people enter thinking it’s legit) and …the bad actors can use that to extract funds.

Based on what Canonical has said so far – and the actions they’ve taken – it doesn’t seem like these malicious snaps were exploiting security holes within snaps, snapd, or the Snap Store infrastructure itself – which is a good thing.

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  • Doc Blaze
    13•1 year ago

    I feel like any seasoned Linux user knows to not EVER use the snap store. I’d rather use universal Windows platform apps, to be honest.

    • @merthyr1831@lemmy.world
      1•1 year ago

      I use Snaps, but specifically for Flutter and Android Studio since it’s the easiest setup route for the SDKs. But yeah ideally I’d avoid them, if not only because by trying to replace all Flatpaks/Debs with snaps they’ve made it laughably easy for people to impersonate legit apps and run phishing scams.