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yes, " https://polyfill.archive.org/v3/polyfill.min.js?features=fet... " is the URL with the malicious code
It looks like it is running the service that was part of the supply chain attacker earlier this year. https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/issues/...
https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill...
Seems like they self hosted that service
Just noticed the site now alerts this: > Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!
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But was that code placed there by IA or by the malicious party?
Verge reports someone has taken credit for an ongoing DDOS against IA. "An account on X called SN_Blackmeta said it was behind the attack and implied that another attack was planned for tomorrow" https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive...
Submitted URL was https://archive.org/.
That's a shame. We need not one but many internet archives. Just one and we will repeat the outcome of the Library of Alexandria.
I found this reddit thread from /r/DataHoarder about backing up the internet archive particularly interesting, given the circumstances
Just noticed the site now alerts this: > Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!
Jokes on them... I'm already on HIBP countless of times...
That's a shame. We need not one but many internet archives. Just one and we will repeat the outcome of the Library of Alexandria.
The Library of Alexandria wasn't that significant and likely wasn't destroyed in one cataclysmic event, but rather centuries of neglect.