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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’.
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.
FWIW it doesnt seem necessarily to be Snap’s fault, but it does prove that there’s a risk for Canonical as they move to cut out Flatpak and Debs from their software offering people are going to take advantage of the fact that a bunch of legitimate apps that arent interested in snap are going to be impersonated incredibly easy because of their choice to restrict access to other sources.