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The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites (sansec.io)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The polyfill.js is a popular open source library to support older browsers. 100K+ sites embed it using the cdn.polyfill.io domain. Notable users are JSTOR, Intuit and World Economic Forum. However, in February this year, a Chinese company bought the domain and the Github account. Since then, this domain was caught injecting malware on mobile devices via any site that embeds cdn.polyfill.io. Any complaints were quickly removed (archive here) from the Github repository.

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[–] [email protected] 175 points 4 months ago (37 children)

nah. over 100k sites ignored dependency risks, even after the original owners warned them this exact thing would happen.

the real story is 100k sites not being run appropriately.

[–] [email protected] 130 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The hackers just engaged in a little bit of technical debt collecting ;)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm stealing this phrase

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Please do! I’ve been trying to make it stick for almost a decade!

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