Telnet

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• Chapter 21 Introduced by its enemy IranBot (Mirai fork) · 2026-09 · updated 2026-09-19 An automated scanner found the honeypot's telnet and, eighteen seconds later, there was a binary inside. The password was «telnet». The loader it dropped comes with two operator typos, one of which breaks an entire infection. And when I finally put a name to the family —IranBot, a Mirai fork with a public dossier— it turned out that name had been written on this blog since August: a rival bot had put it there, in the list of competitors it uninstalls on arrival.