Claim

Waledac DISCOVERED_BY Pierre-Marc Bureau

Pierre-Marc Bureau was among the researchers who obtained Waledac binaries and reverse-engineered them.

Episode: EP 110 — Spam Botnets
Origin: Explicit
Confidence: 97% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker: Jack Rhysider
Attributed source: —

Transcript evidence

“Joan Calvet and Carlton Davis, and Pierre-Marc Bureau who was from US internet security company ESET, well, they got ahold of these binaries from Waledac and started reverse-engineering them.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 37239–37430

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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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