Hackers are hunting for vulnerable endpoints to deploy Python malware.

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 ...

The 11-year-old vulnerability likely impacts many devices that are no longer supported — and presents easy exploit even for those that are.

Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade A recently disclosed critical vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) is "trivial" to exploit, experts say.… The bug, which had gone ...

While telnet is considered obsolete, the network protocol is still used by hundreds of thousands of legacy systems and IoT ...