Nearly 800,000 IP Addresses Exposed Due to Active Exploitation of Critical GNU InetUtils telnetd Vulnerability

The Shadowserver Foundation has identified nearly 800,000 exposed IP addresses due to the active exploitation of the critical vulnerability CVE-2026-24061 affecting the GNU InetUtils telnetd server component. This flaw impacts servers using the Telnet protocol, an unencrypted and obsolete service. No specific discovery or patch date is mentioned in the article. The potential impact includes unspecified risks of remote attacks. Source: https://xakep.ru/2026/01/28/telnetd/