Claim

Rustock USES DNS

Rustock used DNS for bots to connect to its command infrastructure.

Episode
EP 110 — Spam Botnets
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
98% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“The botnet used DNS for the bots to connect to.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 30704–30751

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T07:27:59.382568+00:00

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