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“Palo Alto Networks Hit in Salesloft Drift Supply-Chain Breach—Is Your Cybersecurity Vendor Safe?”
How a Breach at Palo Alto Networks via Salesloft Drift Sparks a Crisis of Trust
Devona Green Jordan
September 03, 2025
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Interesting Tech Fact:
Few people realize that one of the earliest and rarest examples of a supply chain cyber breach dates back to 1984, when Ken Thompson—the co-creator of Unix—revealed in his legendary Turing Award lecture Reflections on Trusting Trust that he had secretly inserted a compiler backdoor capable of spreading malicious code without detection. This theoretical exploit wasn’t a live attack, but it demonstrated the chilling reality that software could be compromised at the source of creation, long before it reached users. Today, it is often cited as the philosophical ancestor of modern supply chain hacks like SolarWinds and Salesloft Drift, reminding us that the weakest link in cybersecurity has always been the invisible trust we place in the tools that build our digital world.
Introduction: The Fracture of the Guardian
In a striking twist of fate, even the most trusted guardians of enterprise cybersecurity—like Palo Alto Networks—have shown themselves to be vulnerable when the chains of trust fail.