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Life lesson #210: Just because something returns a 404 doesn’t mean it’s dead — sometimes it just needs the right whisper… or a well-crafted cURL. 🤯

This story starts like every good hacker tale: me in pajamas, 23 open tabs, a stale cup of chai, and a recon script that hasn’t stopped running since the dinosaurs died. 🦕

I had no idea that a simple 404 would be my golden ticket into the production vault.

While doing some mass recon on a SaaS platform, I stumbled across an unauthenticated subdomain:

https://api-dev.targetcompany.com

Looked boring. I probed it with some generic paths:

/api/v1/users
/api/v1/admin
/api/v1/config

Everything came back 404. Or so I thought.