Blog Security Examining the Polyfill Attack from Akamai's Point of View Gal Meiri is a senior security researcher with vast research experience in the fields of client-side threats and browser capabilities. Gal leads the Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance Threat Research team. As a researcher, Gal investigates various client-side threats among web skimmers and Magecart attacks. In the past, Gal specialized in client-side user and device fingerprinting and bot detection. The polyfill.io supply chain attack underscores the critical vulnerabilities inherent in modern web application development. Editorial and additional commentary by Tricia Howard The polyfill.io supply chain attack: An overview Recently, the security community was alerted to a significant supply chain attack involving polyfill.io, a service that provides polyfills (a piece of JavaScript code that allows modern functionality on older browsers that do not natively support it) for web applications.…