Claim

WannaCry DISCOVERED_BY Marcus Hutchins

Marcus Hutchins discovered the kill-switch URL and its behavior while analyzing WannaCry.

Episode
EP 73 — WannaCry
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
99% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
—

Transcript evidence

“when Marcus Hutchins found this URL in the code”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 23433–23480

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T06:36:57.012262+00:00

claim:ep073:0aae5b5a1143