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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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[–] homesweethomeMrL 41 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

[–] kautau 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah this is just capitalistic business in general. Don’t do anything proactive if it might reduce the bottom line in the short term. Blame others and beg for help when you weren’t proactive. Succeed singularly, fail collectively

[–] Entropywins 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You just described my coworker...

[–] irreticent 3 points 7 months ago

Described every corporation ever incorporated.

[–] thesystemisdown 3 points 7 months ago

This isn't holding up, time isn't after us.