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polyfill-service

Automatic polyfill service.

20Distinct people
22Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
7.1KGitHub stars
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What it is

Automatic polyfill service.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year22 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-12-04 21:01:37 UTC to 2024-10-09 21:52:06 UTC.

0510152014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 1 submissions, 14 comments2024

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC15114

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The Internet Archive shows the progression of events pretty clearly. - In ~May 2023, the FT transferred it to Jake Champion: https://web.archive.org/web/20230505112634/https://polyfill.... - In mid-Oct, the site stated it was "Proudly sponsored by Fastly": https://web.archive.org/web/20231011015804/https://polyfill.... - In November 2023, this was dropped: https://web.archive.org/web/20231101040617/https://polyfill.... - In December 2023, JakeChampion made a sequence of edits removing his name from the repo and pointing to "Polyfill.io maintainers": https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/... https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/... - In mid-February 2024, the polyfillpolyfill account was created on Github, and took ownership over the repo. So I think sometime between October 2023 and February 20
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24, JakeChampion decided to sell the site to Funnull. I think the evidence is consistent with him having made a decision to sell the site to _somebody_ in December 2023, and the deal with Funnull closing sometime early February 2024.
In Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites
I totally get the intention behind this and the final outcome is definitely a safer internet. It's also somewhat justified considering the author has mentioned they never controlled its domain, yet the library has been distributed through that domain, correct? This is a reflection of the extremely poor security practices in the web development world. At the same time, there is a wrongness in Cloudflare being able to overwrite content and changing the 'truth'. I'm like that larry david gif, I just don't know how to process this. One more thing to note, if you go to the polyfill repo, they've also mentioned they're using Cloudflare to distribute the library. https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/...
In Cloudflare automatically fixes Polyfill.io for free sites
The first time a user, who uses a phone, open a website through an ads ( google ads or facebook ) with this link, it will redirect user to a malicious website. The request send to https://cdn.polyfill.io/v2/polyfill.min.js needs to match the following format: Request for the first time from a unique IP, with a unique User-Agent. User-Agent match that of a phone, we used an iphone's user agent ( Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone14,2; U; CPU iPhone OS 14_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/602.1.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/602.1 ). Referer from a reputable website that installed polyfill. Accept / Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate, br, zstd Delete all cookies The request will return the original polyfill code, appended with a piece of malicious code. This code will make a run javascript f
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rom https://www.googie-anaiytics.com/ga.js , if the device is not a laptop. You can reproduce this multiple time on the same machine by changing User agent gently, (ex: change Mozilla/5.0 to Mozilla/6.0). Sometimes the server will just timeout or return code without the injection, but it should work most of the time. The javascript on https://www.googie-anaiytics.com/ga.js will redirect users to a malicious website based on some condition check for a number of conditions before running ( useragent, screen width, ...) to ensure it is a phone, the entry point is at the end: bdtjfg||cnzfg||wolafg||mattoo||aanaly||ggmana||aplausix||statcct?setTimeout(check_tiaozhuan,-0x4*0x922+0x1ebd+0xd9b):check_tiaozhuan(); The code has some protection built-in, so if it is run on a non-suitable environment, it will attempt to relocate a lot of memory to freeze the current devices. It also re-translate all attribute name access with _0x42bcd7 . https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/issues/...
In Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites
alitonium commented Jun 21, 2024 {For specific details: The compromised url is: https://cdn.polyfill.io/v2/polyfill.min.js Behavior: The first time a user, who uses a phone, open a website through an ads ( google ads or facebook ) with this link, it will redirect user to a malicious website. How it works: The request send to https://cdn.polyfill.io/v2/polyfill.min.js needs to match the following format: Request for the first time from a unique IP, with a unique User-Agent. User-Agent match that of a phone, we used an iphone's user agent ( Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone14,2; U; CPU iPhone OS 14_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/602.1.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/602.1 ). Referer from a reputable website that installed polyfill. Accept / Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate, b
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r, zstd Delete all cookies The request will return the original polyfill code, appended with a piece of malicious code. This code will make a run javascript from https://www.googie-anaiytics.com/ga.js , if the device is not a laptop. You can reproduce this multiple time on the same machine by changing User agent gently, (ex: change Mozilla/5.0 to Mozilla/6.0). Sometimes the server will just timeout or return code without the injection, but it should work most of the time. {malignant code as per comments https://github.com/alitonium} The javascript on https://www.googie-anaiytics.com/ga.js will redirect users to a malicious website based on some condition. I cannot check this further due to the lack of time. The content of gooie is here https://pastebin.com/hAgtHd70 in case they delete it. The code check for a number of conditions before running ( useragent, screen width, ...) to ensure it is a phone, the entry point is at the end: bdtjfg||cnzfg||wolafg||mattoo||aanaly||ggmana||aplausix||statcct?setTimeout(check_tiaozhuan,-0x4*0x922+0x1ebd+0xd9b):check_tiaozhuan(); The code has some protection built-in, so if it is run on a non-suitable environment, it will attempt to relocate a lot of memory to freeze the current devices. It also re-translate all attribute name access with _0x42bcd7 . At this point I think we can definitely conclude that the is a compromised CDN without having to further dig into the remaining obfuscated code.} https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/issues/...
In Polykill Sites reported to be using cdn.polyfill.io (as of Feb 27,2024)

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