Claim

WannaCry USES Bitcoin

WannaCry used Bitcoin payments as part of its ransomware operation.

Episode
EP 158 — MalwareTech
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
98% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“you had to pay Bitcoin to get it unlocked again”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 5694–5741

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

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