On the 16th October 2023 Cisco Talos shared intelligence about a handful of compromised routers discovered while resolving customer support requests. As the full story unfolded, a handful of backdoored devices turned into tens of thousands, and the massive mobilisation of incident response teams as patches were applied and workarounds implemented. Many months later, the incident may be largely forgotten by Cisco customers and the cyber-security community, but working on these routers remains an objective for somebody.