A domain that more than 100,000 websites use to deliver JavaScript code is now being used as a conduit for a Web supply chain attack that uses dynamically generated payloads, redirects users to ...

UPDATE 6/28: Domain registrar Namecheap has shut down the Polyfill .io domain, thereby eliminating the previous issue posed to almost 500,000 websites, web security firm C/Side CEO Simon Wijckmans ...

In context: Polyfills are snippets of JavaScript code that provide modern features on older web browsers. There's nothing wrong with polyfills per se, but miscreants and cyber-criminals can easily ...

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One of the biggest digital supply chain attacks of the year was launched by a little-known company that redirected large numbers of internet users to a network of copycat gambling sites, according to ...

More than 384,000 websites are linking to a site that was caught last week performing a supply-chain attack that redirected visitors to malicious sites, researchers said. For years, the JavaScript ...

The recent large scale supply chain attack conducted via multiple CDNs, namely Polyfill.io, BootCDN, Bootcss, and Staticfile that affected up to tens of millions of websites has been traced to a ...

A site formerly used to host a service geared towards adding JavaScript polyfills to web pages to ensure compatibility with older browsers is being abused to serve malicious scripts as part of a ...

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