Claim

Kernel implant USES sinkholing

The implant supported Sophos's broader effort to monitor and investigate malicious infrastructure; the episode separately describes Sophos sinkholing seized domains.

Episode
EP 174 — Pacific Rim
Origin
Derived
Confidence
68% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Andrew Brandt
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“they wanted to sinkhole the domains and see what was connecting into them”

Andrew Brandt · offsets 35296–35369

Read the official transcript

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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