Re: [PLUG] Linux Users Targeted as Crypto-stealing Malware Hits Snap Packages

["Rich Mingin \(PLUG\) via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

I mean, I'm sure it's a hot take, but any time I need to use Ubuntu,
removing the Snap infrastructure in it's entirety is always very early
on my to-do list.

Don't support politically motivated projects, in general. AppImage and
Flatpak work on Ubuntu with just a tiny bit of work.


On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 5:35 PM Michael Lazin via plug
<plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
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> Stay away from the snap store but if you need snap look at your cpu load with something like htop.
>
> Michael Lazin
>
> .. τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ νοεῖν ἐστίν τε καὶ εἶναι.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 5:31 PM Net Buoy <netbuoyit@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Is there a solution for this?
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>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 11:10 Michael Lazin via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
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>>> I’ve seen this done on Windows servers.  They infect tons of them and mine Monero with cpu and count on people not looking into the cpu load.
>>>
>>> Michael Lazin
>>>
>>> .. τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ νοεῖν ἐστίν τε καὶ εἶναι.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 9:40 AM Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
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>>>> Interesting. I would have thought that any crytomining worth doing
>>>> would use enough CPU that I'd notice it pretty quickly. But I guess
>>>> maybe if you infect enough machines, you can have each of them run at
>>>> a lower priority?
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 08:29:07AM -0500, jeffv via plug wrote:
>>>> > Linux Users Targeted as Crypto-stealing Malware Hits Snap Packages
>>>> >
>>>> > https://linuxsecurity.com/news/hackscracks/crypto-stealing-malware-hits-snap-packages
>>>> >
>>>> > Several crypto-stealing campaigns are using Snap packages to land quietly on
>>>> > Ubuntu Linux systems. No exploit chains. No privilege escalation. Just
>>>> > software that looked legitimate enough to install, then stayed resident long
>>>> > enough to make money. For attackers focused on cryptomining, that´s ideal.
>>>> > CPU is consumed slowly, the system keeps working, and nothing obviously
>>>> > breaks.
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