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Telnet news and mentions around the internet
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Various news and interesting events related to telnet around the internet.
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2026 Feb 11: Reports of Telnet’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
https://old.terracenetworks.com/blog/2026-02-11-telnet-routing
We see no evidence that specific core network autonomous systems have blocked Telnet, contrary to previous reports. We specifically see continued non-spoofable Telnet traffic from networks on which GreyNoise saw 100% drop-off. We suspect initial results may have been measurement artifacts or specific threat actors explicitly avoiding GreyNoise infrastructure, though determining this root cause is impossible without internal data.
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2026 Feb 10: 2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died
https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-02-10-telnet-falls-silent/
On January 14, 2026, global telnet traffic observed by GreyNoise sensors fell off a cliff. A 59% sustained reduction, eighteen ASNs going completely silent, five countries vanishing from our data entirely. Six days later, CVE-2026-24061 dropped. Coincidence is one explanation.
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2026 Jan 27: telnet.org hits hacker news
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46775135
Every once in a while, we have a page picked up on hacker news or some other place out on the web. This one got a lot of traction and some fun interaction.