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Re:Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store by zokier on Saturday May 12, 2018 @03:38PM (#17055643)
I would be really surprised if the miner is contributing any major portion of that size. I just did a very basic search and a random miner I found has binary sizes <1MB

https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases

edit: apparently the actual game is based on https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048 which is HTML+JS, so probably the Snap was bundling in Chromium/Electron, which explains the size.

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Re:Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store by StavrosK on Saturday May 12, 2018 @05:27PM (#17056098)
Yeah, the Coinhive miner is ~115 KILObytes.
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