Claim

Cutwail USES Pushdo

Cutwail was populated by Pushdo infections; the two malware families were described as working together.

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

“Google used a Trojan called Pushdo to infiltrate Windows computers and get the Cutwail spam engine running on them.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 19596–19711

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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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