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• API Stronghold Team
ShinyHunters Didn't Hack Cisco. They Hacked Cisco's Vendor.
The breach came through a third-party CI/CD credential with AWS access, not Cisco's perimeter. The same week, a backdoored axios release ran inside thousands of pipelines. Your vendor's key rotation policy is now your attack surface.
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