https://blog.efespain.com/en/tags/telnet/A honeypot in some corner of the network. Every infection, a story worth telling.HugoeneFeSpaineFeSpain2026 eFeSpainTue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://blog.efespain.com/en/chapter-21/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://blog.efespain.com/en/chapter-21/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.