The thing that made it so notable at the time is that it was basically using 'all the things'... a hardcoded password by Siemens, a zero day in some Siemens cod

The thing that made it so notable at the time is that it was basically using 'all the things'... a hardcoded password by Siemens, a zero day in some Siemens code, a couple stolen private keys from Taiwanese hardware manufacturers, and 4 Windows zero days (the print spooler one, something with Shortcuts, and two escalation of privilege vulns).