Nearly 800,000 Telnet servers exposed to remote attacks

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 ...
Simon Fraser University

UNIX: TCP/IP and TELNET Access Methods

Version 6 Only Beginning with Version 7, the TELNET access method is not supported. However, information about TELNET is included here for Version 6 users. For TELNET, the WAITFOR statement in the ...
Threat Post

Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices

Bad actor obtained passwords for servers, home routers, and smart devices by scanning internet for devices open to the Telnet port. A hacker has published a list of credentials for more than 515,000 ...
Bleeping Computer

Nearly 3,000 Bitcoin Miners Exposed Online via Telnet Ports, Without Passwords

Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers has discovered 2,893 Bitcoin miners left exposed on the Internet with no passwords on their Telnet port. Gevers told Bleeping Computer in a private conversation ...