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Namecheap Takes Down Polyfill.io Service Following Supply Chain Attack


Polyfill.io has been serving malware for months via its CDN, after the project's open source maintainer sold the service to a company based in China.

Those impacted include high-profile users Atlassian, Sendgrid, JSTOR, Intuit, the World Economic Forum, FlatIcon, SiteGround, and many government websites. Shortly after the sale in February, Fastly DevRel Andrew Betts, who created the Polyfill Service Project, urged people to remove polyfill.io immediately from their websites. Notos CTO Renaud Chaput posted to the FormatJS repository, warning against the project recommending the service in a GitHub issue months ago.

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