Critical Telnet flaw (CVE-2026-24061) exposes 800,000 devices worldwide Attackers gain root access, attempt Python malware deployment after bypassing authentication Patch released; users urged to ...
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 ...
I've used both pexpect and python's built-in telnetlib somewhat regularly to talk to "dumb" telnet devices. Depending on how complicated the data is, telnetlib might be good enough and will work ...