Canonical Changes Snap Store Policy in Ubuntu after Criminals Upload Fake Crypto Apps

Malicious actors have been attacking the Ubuntu Snap Store in recent months by uploading fake crypto wallet apps to steal people’s money. The situation got so bad that Canonical had to change the upload flow procedures and manually inspect uploaded Snaps. Ubuntu’s Snaps are actually containerized apps that have their own store. They’ve been available for a while, and Canonical, the company making Ubuntu, has been trying for some time to make this a new standard, albeit with limited success. As