Claim

Cloud Hopper TARGETS United States Department of Defense

The campaign scanned DoD address ranges and was ultimately associated with efforts to reach US government networks.

Episode: EP 103 — Cloud Hopper
Origin: Explicit
Confidence: 98% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker: Jack Rhysider
Attributed source: —

Transcript evidence

“This threat actor was using this server and this company’s network to scan the US Department of Defense’s servers”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 31937–32050

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T07:19:40.896704+00:00

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