The AI Vampire
Summary
The piece analyzes a sudden, sustained collapse of global telnet traffic in January 2026, associating it with the discovery and disclosure of CVE-2026-24061 in GNU Inetutils telnetd. It discusses a plausible infrastructure-level filter on port 23 by a North American Tier 1 provider, the timeline of exploitation and advisories, and practical remediation for affected systems, framing the event within broader security considerations for legacy protocols.