Sudden #Telnet Traffic Drop. Are #Telcos Filtering Ports to Block Critical #Vulnerability?
Telcos likely received advance warning about January's critical Telnet vulnerability before its public disclosure, according to threat intelligence biz GreyNoise. Global Telnet traffic "fell off a cliff" on January 14, 6 days before #security advisories for CVE-2026-24061 went public on Jan 20. The flaw, a decade-old bug in GNU #InetUtils telnetd with a 9.8 #CVSS score, allows β¦

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Register: Telcos likely received advance warning about January's critical Telnet vulnerability before its public disclosure, according to threat intelligence biz GreyNoise. Global Telnet traffic "fell off a cliff" on January 14, six days before secu...
π¬ Mike Blanche explains what next week's #DigitalNetworksAct risks getting wrong:
"Big #telcos warn of βexplodingβ internet traffic. But hereβs a reality check: #Traffic growth is slowing everywhere!" πͺ "Why is the @EU_Commission still buying into this invented crisis?"