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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 0x815@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] jamyang@lemmy.world 77 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Man, the Chinese are becoming a new major nuisancec on internet.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

Is therea way to ground them for a month while they think about what they did?

~~Take away his honey~~ No more honey on school nights

Edit: could the US/NATO ground China in some debilliting/deterrent way? Like geopolitically/economically spank them and send them to bed without dinner until they come to Jesus?

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 21 points 4 months ago

All Chinese businesses are owned by the CCP, except the ones that get caught being naughty. Suddenly those are a private business with no ties to the party.

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