Why Your Admin Panel Is a Target Right Now
An exposed admin panel — whether WordPress, phpMyAdmin, Portainer, or Proxmox — can be detected and attacked by automated bots in under 15 minutes. Tools like Shodan continuously index all internet-exposed services, and automated scripts test default credentials without distinguishing between large corporations and small businesses. In our field audits at Blurtek across SMEs in Catalonia and eastern Spain, 64% had at least one admin panel accessible from the internet without any IP restriction. In three cases, we found evidence of successful unauthorized access the client was completely unaware of, with an average dwell time exceeding four months.
Want to know exactly which panels you have exposed and what your real risk is? At Blurtek we perform attack surface audits for SMEs: an actionable report in one working day.
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