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The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites (sansec.io)

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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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[–] best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

100k sites ignored dependency risks

JS: typing systems are boring, warnings are boring, security is boring.

[–] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sure, the package managers of other languages are super safe

[–] best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're confused. It's unrelated to package managers, it's about basic security principles like this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subresource_Integrity but JS devs don't care.

[–] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Finding new ways webshits fuck up the most basic development principles boggles my mind. It's like they intentionally stay ignorant.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

We know, but we don’t have time to change. We have another site waiting to get slammed out as soon as the one we’re working on, which was underfunded with a ridiculous timeline goes live.

There’s still a fair bit of “my nephew makes websites, it can’t be that [hard, expensive, time consuming], oh and by the way, e we need a way to edit every word and image on the site, that both our intern and barely literate CEO can understand, even though we’re literally never going to edit anything ever.”

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 5 months ago

They're widely variable. PyPI gets into about as much trouble as npm, but I haven't heard of a successful attack on CPAN in years (although that may be because no one cares about Perl anymore).