Claim

Carna Botnet USES Telnet

The Carna Botnet scanned internet-connected systems running Telnet and used Telnet access during its propagation.

Episode
EP 13 — Carna Botnet
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
98% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“The researcher created a program that would scan and find unprotected systems and then upload that same program to the systems it found”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 2635–2770

“The first mission was just to see how many devices were running Telnet with default passwords.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 4918–5012

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T03:40:11.876539+00:00

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