Claim

Kernel implant DEVELOPED_BY Sophos

The kernel implant was built by Sophos engineers and distributed only to selected machines of suspected threat actors.

Episode
EP 174 — Pacific Rim
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
99% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Andrew Brandt
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“the security team decides they’re going to build something that they just call the implant”

Andrew Brandt · offsets 27332–27422

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T08:59:46.082354+00:00

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