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384,000 sites pull code from sketchy code library recently bought by Chinese firm | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Could also have been a test run

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

Maybe to see how quickly it was noticed? Yeah, possibly

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

A very expensive test run

Imagine the face of the state sponsored attacker that ordered to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for this supply chain attack to happen and then it's all wasted to send a few visitors to a porn site