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Hackers Exploit CVE-2025-55182 to Breach 766 Next.js Hosts, Steal Credentials
Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 07:30 PM UTC·Source: The Hacker News
Updated: Friday, April 3, 2026 at 02:38 AM UTC
Executive Summary
A large-scale credential harvesting operation has been observed exploiting the React2Shell vulnerability as an initial infection vector to steal database credentials, SSH private keys, Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets, shell command history, Stripe API keys, and GitHub tokens at scale. Cisco Talos has attributed the operation to a threat cluster it tracks as
Analysis
A large-scale credential harvesting operation has been observed exploiting the React2Shell vulnerability as an initial infection vector to steal database credentials, SSH private keys, Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets, shell command history, Stripe API keys, and GitHub tokens at scale. Cisco Talos has attributed the operation to a threat cluster it tracks as