📰 Ubuntu Snap Prompting Improvements
If you haven’t tried Ubuntu’s ‘Permission Prompting’ feature for a while, there’s more reason to do so in the latest release. Canonical’s Oliver Calder has shared an update on recent improvements to the security feature, which sets out to “empower users” by letting them decide what software can access on the rest of the system at runtime rather than retrospectively.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/ubuntu-snap-prompting-client-improved
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🚨 Fake VS Code extension abused #Moltbot’s name to deliver remote access malware.
It posed as an AI assistant, despite Moltbot having no official VS Code plugin. Once installed, it auto-ran on IDE launch and dropped ScreenConnect for persistent remote control.
🔗 Read → https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/fake-moltbot-ai-coding-assistant-on-vs.html
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