A group of researchers working at the cybersecurity company Sansec, 384 thousand 773 It was detected that the website had been turned into malware. Moreover, these sites included some sites affiliated with the US government and world-famous companies Hulu, Mercedes-Benz and Warner Bros. was also included. So how was this possible?

The cause of the event in question is “polyfill.comJavaScript code found on a website called “. Site administrators update their websites through Polyfill, and websites designed with older systems are updated in the most up-to-date Internet browsers. See high performance They were providing. The acquisition of the free Polyfill by the Chinese software company Funnull makes this service popular to become evil LED.

Redirected to adult and gambling sites

According to research by Sansec, Funnull is the product of Polyfill. changed their codes. So, users who visited world-famous websites were redirected to websites with adult and gambling themes. According to the information obtained, a significant portion of the 384,773 websites that became malicious, such as 62 percent, was located in GermanyHowever, it is not yet known how many people are affected by this situation.

Sansec researchers immediately shared their findings with companies such as Namecheap, Cloudflare, Google and Amazon. they reported. Companies have also done some work on website systems to eliminate malware. So the malware in question has lost its function.