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Researchers link Polyfill supply chain attack to huge network of copycat gambling sites
A supply chain hack targeting 100,000 websites was launched to redirect internet users to a massive online gambling network.
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 security researchers. It’s unclear what the goal of the supply chain attack was exactly, but Willem de Groot, the founder of Sansec, wrote on X at the time that it appeared to be a “laughably bad” attempt at monetization. Silent Push researchers said in their report that they were able to identify around 40,000 mostly Chinese-language websites hosted by FUNNULL, all with similarly looking and likely automatically generated domains made up of a scattering of seemingly random letters and numbers.
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