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Vercel April 2026 security incident

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Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

#12

Post by embedding-shape »

neom wrote: post #7

https://x.com/theo/status/2045871215705747965 - "Everything I know about this hack suggests it could happen to any host" He also suggests in another post that Linear and GitHub could also be pwned? Either way, hugops to all the SRE/DevOps out there, seems like it's going to be a busy Sunday for many.

Based on what, "feels like it"? Claiming that Cloudflare is affected by the same hack has to come from somewhere, but where is that coming from?

Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

#14

Post by 0xy »

This is why you pay a real provider for serious business needs, not an AWS reseller. Next.js is a fundamentally insecure framework, as server components are an anti-pattern full of magic leading to stuff like the below. Given their standards for framework security, it's not hard to believe their business' control plane is just as insecure (and probably built using the same insecure framework).

Next.js is the new PHP, but worse, since unlike PHP you don't really know what's server side and what's client side anymore. It's all just commingled and handled magically.

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/rss/aws-2...

Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

#15

Post by gruez »

embedding-shape wrote: post #12
neom wrote: post #7

https://x.com/theo/status/2045871215705747965 - "Everything I know about this hack suggests it could happen to any host" He also suggests in another post that Linear and GitHub could also be pwned? Either way, hugops to all the SRE/DevOps out there, seems like it's going to be a busy Sunday for many.

Based on what, "feels like it"? Claiming that Cloudflare is affected by the same hack has to come from somewhere, but where is that coming from?

from his "sources".

> Here’s what I’ve managed to get from my sources:

>3. The method of compromise was likely used to hit multiple companies other than Vercel.

https://x.com/theo/status/2045870216555499636

To be fair journalists often do this too, eg. "[company] was breached, people within the company claim"

Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

#16

Post by embedding-shape »

0xy wrote: post #14

This is why you pay a real provider for serious business needs, not an AWS reseller. Next.js is a fundamentally insecure framework, as server components are an anti-pattern full of magic leading to stuff like the below. Given their standards for framework security, it's not hard to believe their business' control plane is just as insecure (and probably built using the same insecure framework). Next.js is the new PHP,…

> Next.js is the new PHP, but worse, since unlike PHP you don't really know what's server side and what's client side anymore. It's all just commingled and handled magically.

Wasn't unheard of back in the day, that you leaked things via PHP templates, like serializing and adding the whole user object including private details in a Twig template or whatever, it just happened the other way around kind of. This was before "fat frontend, thin backend" was the prevalent architecture, many built their "frontends" from templates with just sprinkles of JavaScript back then.

Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

#18

Post by mikert89 »

Much as I want to rip on vercel, its clear that ai is going to lead to mass security breaches. The attack surface is so large, and ai agents are working around the clock. This is a new normal. Open source software is going to change, companies wont be running random repos off github anymore

Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

#19

Post by lijok »

mikert89 wrote: post #18

Much as I want to rip on vercel, its clear that ai is going to lead to mass security breaches. The attack surface is so large, and ai agents are working around the clock. This is a new normal. Open source software is going to change, companies wont be running random repos off github anymore

ShinyHunters are a phishing group. What does this have to do with AI agents?

Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

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Post by mikert89 »

lijok wrote: post #19
mikert89 wrote: post #18

Much as I want to rip on vercel, its clear that ai is going to lead to mass security breaches. The attack surface is so large, and ai agents are working around the clock. This is a new normal. Open source software is going to change, companies wont be running random repos off github anymore

ShinyHunters are a phishing group. What does this have to do with AI agents?

Run ai agents around the clock to do hyper targeted fishing
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