When this issue was found, Canonical removed the applications from the Snap Store and transferred ownership of the Snaps to a trusted third-party which re-published the Snaps without the miner present. In one case in May 2018, two applications by the same developer were found to contain a cryptocurrency miner which ran in the background during application execution. However, the scan does not catch all issues. All apps uploaded to the Snap Store undergo automatic testing, including a malware scan. The Snap Store allows developers to publish their snap-packaged applications. Snap was originally released for cloud applications but was later ported to also work for Internet of Things devices and desktop applications.įunctionality Snap Store Snaps are self-contained applications running in a sandbox with mediated access to the host system. The packages, called snaps, and the tool for using them, snapd, work across a range of Linux distributions and allow upstream software developers to distribute their applications directly to users. Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system.

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