Alan Pope (@popey.me)

Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains tl;dr: There’s a relentless campaign by scammers to publish malware in the Canonical Snap Store. Some gets caught by automated filters, but plenty slips through. Recently, these miscreants have changed tactics - they’re now registering expired domains belonging to legitimate snap publishers, taking over their accounts, and pushing malicious updates to previously trustworthy applications. This is a significant escalation. Context Snaps are compressed, cryptographically signed, revertable software packages for Linux desktops, servers, and embedded devices. https://blog.popey.com/2026/01/malware-purveyors-taking-over-published-snap-email-domains/