Shadow IT Is Expanding Your Attack Surface. Here’s Proof

Intruder’s analysis of Shadow IT discovered numerous exposed internet-facing assets — including open backup directories containing active credentials and database dumps, public Git repositories with live secrets, unauthenticated admin panels (some showing ransomware notes), and a propagated misconfiguration impacting roughly 100 customer domains — demonstrating how unmanaged systems create high-risk blind spots that attackers can exploit.