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After multiple waves of cryptocurrency credential-stealing apps were uploaded to the Snap store, Canonical is changing its policies.
In what's expected to be a temporary measure, an announcement on the Snapcraft Discourse says that the Ubuntu vendor will switch to Over the recent weeks, the Snap Store has been under attack by various publishers attempting to upload malicious crypto-wallet snaps.was masquerading as the real Exodus wallet from Exodus Movement – a company that already offers native Debian packages alongside its Windows and Mac versions.on the Snapcraft forums. (If you are inclined to join in, note that the Snapcraft Discourse instance has its own membership system, separate from the. Popey also did some digging into how they work.
Part of the problem is that these apps look legitimate to casual inspection because the Snap Store badges them as"safe." Unfortunately, that just means the apps are strictly confined in a sandbox, but for the scammers' purposes, that doesn't matter. The apps look like the real thing and use simple social engineering to extract users' credentials, which they then use to siphon off the victim's funds.
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