Claim

McColo takedown INVOLVES Cutwail

Cutwail lost much of its hosting and became immobile after the McColo takedown.

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 had most of his servers for Cutwail there. This was enough to make both botnets stunned and immobile”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 40472–40580

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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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