NEW: This is how former L3Harris Trenchant boss Peter Williams was able to steal zero-days worth millions of dollars and sell them to a Russian broker, based on court documents and interviews with his former colleagues.  A former Trenchant employee told me that “no one had any supervision over [Williams] at all. He was kind of allowed to do things the way he wanted to.” “He was, in my opinion, perceived to be beyond reproach,” the former employee, who has knowledge of Trenchant's IT systems, told me.
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How an ex-L3Harris Trenchant boss stole and sold cyber exploits to Russia | TechCrunch
Peter Williams sold eight exploits to a Russian zero-day broker by smuggling them from his employer’s highly secured air-gapped network. A court ...
NEW: Peter Williams, the former head of Western zero-day and spyware maker Trenchant, pleaded guilty to selling eight exploits to a Russian broker that resells to the Russian government. The DOJ said Williams was promised millions of dollars in exchange for "national-security focused software."
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Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker | TechCrunch
Prosecutors confirmed Peter Williams, the former Trenchant boss, sold eight exploits to a Russian buyer. TechCrunch exclusively reported that the T...
NEW: The U.S. govt accused Peter Williams, ex general manager of hacking tool maker L3Harris Trenchant, of stealing trade secrets and selling them to buyer in Russia. As we reported earlier this week, Trenchant was investigating a leak of internal tools this year. At this point, it's unclear if that investigation is related to the accusations against Williams.
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US accuses former L3Harris cyber boss of stealing and selling secrets to Russian buyer | TechCrunch
The U.S. Department of Justice accused Peter Williams, former general manager of L3Harris’ hacking division Trenchant, of stealing trade secrets ...
ICYMI (story broke late Friday evening): A judge has ordered NSO Group to stop targeting WhatsApp users. At the same time the judge reduced the damages the spyware maker had to pay to WhatsApp from $167 million to $4M, becasue there was no evidence NSO’s behavior was “particularly egregious."
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Spyware maker NSO Group blocked from WhatsApp | TechCrunch
A federal judge has granted Meta-owned WhatsApp’s request for a permanent injunction blocking Israeli cyberintelligence company NSO Group from ta...
SCOOP: ICE's Homeland Security Investigation signed a $3 million contract with Magnet Forensics, which makes phone hacking tech for law enforcement agencies that is "essential to mission of protecting national security & public." Magnet Forensics makes the phone unlocking system Graykey. We also found other recent contracts for the same technology for HSI in Charlotte and Detroit.
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ICE unit signs new $3M contract for phone-hacking tech | TechCrunch
Homeland Security Investigations, the law enforcement arm of ICE, adds phone-unlocking tech made by Magnet Forensics to its arsenal of technology u...