Next.js in the Media
8 mentions across press, blogs, and newsletters
February 2026
The Pragmatic Engineer
The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source
An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis
Feb 26, 2026
The Hacker News
Microsoft Warns Developers of Fake Next.js Job Repos Delivering In-Memory Malware
A "coordinated developer-targeting campaign" is using malicious repositories disguised as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessments to trick victims into executing them and establish persistent access to compromised machines. "The activity aligns with a broader cluster of threats that us
Feb 26, 2026
BleepingComputer
Fake Next.js job interview tests backdoor developer's devices
The Microsoft Defender team has discovered a coordinated campaign targeting software developers through malicious repositories posing as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessment materials, including recruiting coding tests. [...]
Feb 25, 2026
The Register AI-ML
Fake 'interview' repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware
Come for the coding test, stay for the C2 traffic Next.js developers are once again in the crosshairs as hackers seed malicious repositories disguised as legitimate projects, according to Microsoft, which said a limited set of those repos were directly tied to observed compromises.…
Feb 25, 2026
darkreading
Malicious Next.js Repos Target Developers Via Fake Job Interviews
Linked to North Korean fake job-recruitment campaigns, the poisoned repositories are aimed at establishing persistent access to infected machines.
Feb 25, 2026
The Register AI-ML
Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API 'in one week' with AI
Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in with a new open source build tool A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens.…
Feb 25, 2026
GBHackers
Microsoft Alerts Developers of Malicious Next.js Repositories Used in Ongoing Hacker Attacks
Microsoft has warned that threat actors are weaponizing malicious Next.js repositories to compromise developers through what appear to be legitimate projects and recruiting‑style technical assessments. The campaign abuses normal workflows in Visual Studio Code and Node.js to reach a staged comman
Feb 25, 2026
Logrocket
6 React Server Component performance pitfalls in Next.js
6 React Server Component performance pitfalls in Next.js
Feb 23, 2026