Nearly 800,000 Telnet servers exposed to remote attacks

Published on January 26, 2026

Internet security watchdog Shadowserver tracks nearly 800,000 IP addresses with Telnet fingerprints amid ongoing attacks exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnetd server. [...]

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