That's Not Our Admin: The Blind Spots That Open Doors To Attackers
Barracuda Networks, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Lessons from around 600,000 security alerts analyzed by Barracuda Managed XDR
Takeaways
- In 2025, 90% of ransomware incidents exploited firewalls, and the fastest observed ransomware case took three hours from breach to encryption.
- The most widely detected CVE vulnerability dates from 2013, and 11% of detected vulnerabilities have a known exploit.
- Barracuda releases the Managed XDR Global Threat Report.
Cyberattacks are stealthy. They sneak into networks, looking for gaps, errors and oversights: a single rogue device, an account that wasn't disabled when someone left, a dormant application that hasn't been updated, or an accidentally disabled security feature.