Claim

WannaCry kill switch domain DISCOVERED_BY Marcus Hutchins

Marcus Hutchins found the unregistered domain in the WannaCry code and registered it.

Episode

EP 158 — MalwareTech

Origin

Explicit

Confidence

99% (extractor score, not a fact score)

Speaker

Malwaretech

Attributed source

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Validation

Direction flagged DISCOVERED_BY does not allow network_component → person

Transcript evidence

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T08:39:12.216151+00:00

claim:ep158:893d771d0867