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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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[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[...] code hosted on the polyfill domain had been changed to redirect users to adult- and gambling-themed websites.

I wonder if the intent was to actually send users to these sites, or to generate bogus clicks on ad links.

Seems like a lot of effort to go through just to drive a little extra traffic to some random porn sites.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Could also have been a test run

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 3 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