Claim

Zbot SAME_AS ZeuS

The malware first called Zbot, short for ZeuS Bot, later became known simply as ZeuS.

Episode
EP 111 — ZeuS
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
99% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
—

Transcript evidence

“now it was being called Zbot, short for ZeuS Bot”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 8036–8084

“By 2008, Zbot became known just as ZeuS”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 8970–9009

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T07:29:11.389843+00:00

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