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MBCookyesterday at 11:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

It wasn’t clear from the article but I assumed they were filtering for the attack specifically.

Since Telnet is totally plain text that would absolutely be easy to do right?


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Mixtapeyesterday at 11:41 PM

Wouldn't that imply that >80% of all monitored telnet sessions were exploit attempts for the specific CVE in question? Even with the scale of modern botnets, that seems unrealistic for a single vuln that was undisclosed at the time.

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wblyesterday at 11:29 PM

Not at interconnect speeds