Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Google has taken steps to block ads for e-commerce sites that use the Polyfill.io service after a Chinese company acquired the domain and modified the JavaScript library ("polyfill.js") to redirect users to malicious and scam sites."Protecting our users is our top priority. We detected a security issue recently that may affect websites using certain third-party libraries," the company said in a

Over 100,000 sites have been impacted in a supply chain attack by the Polyfill.io service after a Chinese company acquired the domain and the script was modified to redirect users to malicious and scam sites. [...]

Campaign to coax GitHub-owned outfit to improve security starts showing results Special report Security consultant Lance Vick recently acquired the expired domain used by the maintainer of a widely used NPM package to remind the JavaScript community that the NPM Registry still hasn't implemented adequate security.…