Claim

Asnarok INVOLVES Sophos XG Firewall

The Asnarok attack affected publicly exposed Sophos XG Firewalls; the episode says a very large number of devices were compromised.

Episode
EP 174 — Pacific Rim
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
98% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Andrew Brandt
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“essentially every firewall that was facing the public internet was affected by this bug”

Andrew Brandt · offsets 10070–10157

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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