A US judge sentences ex-L3Harris executive Peter Williams to 7+ years in prison, after he pleaded guilty in 2025 to theft of trade secrets and selling exploits
Additionally, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned the Russian zero-day brokerage that Peter Williams sold the exploits to. — Learn more.
A US judge sentences ex-L3Harris exec Peter Williams to over 7 years in prison, after he pleaded guilty in 2025 to theft of trade secrets and selling exploits
Additionally, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned the Russian zero-day brokerage that Peter Williams sold the exploits to. — Learn more.
The US DOJ says Peter Williams, the former boss of L3Harris' Trenchant, stole and sold tools that can hack millions of computers worldwide to a Russian broker
The former boss of a U.S. maker of hacking and surveillance tools stole and sold technology that can hack millions of computers and people worldwide …
A former L3Harris executive pleads guilty in a US district court to selling eight zero-day exploits to a Russian broker in exchange for millions of dollars
* “at least eight sensitive and protected cyber-exploit components” illegally sold to “a Russian cyber-tools broker” (for ~$1.3m). Obviously at a huge discount, bc super illegal — But separately “[...
Sources and docs: the US DOJ charges Peter Williams, ex-director of zero-day vendor L3Harris' Trenchant, with stealing trade secrets to sell to a Russian buyer
A director at a company that sells computer vulnerabilities has been charged with stealing secrets to sell to an unspecified buyer in Russia …
San Diego-based defense startup Shield AI raised $240M from L3Harris, a16z, and others at a $5.3B valuation to develop its Hivemind autonomous vehicle platform
The company is raising $240 million and pushing into software. — Defense startup Shield AI has finalized a deal to raise $240 million … Bluesky: @danielmconnolly Bluesky: @danielmconnolly : Autonomo...
Source: NSO Group, which has ~$400M in debt, cut 15% of its workforce and raised prices by ~20% after a potential sale to defense contractor L3Harris collapsed
Bloomberg : Tweets: @jeffstone500 Tweets: Jeff Stone / @jeffstone500 : spyware vendor NSO Group cuts staff, raises prices by 15% in the face of the US blacklist, per @ElizaHannon @dscigliuzzo also: I...
Sources: defense contractor L3Harris scuttled plans to buy NSO Group despite alleged US intel officials' support, after the Biden admin's outrage over the talks
The American contractor L3 Harris is said to have cited support from intelligence officials for its effort to acquire NSO …
Sources: US defense contractor L3Harris is in talks with NSO Group to acquire its core tech; White House says such a deal would raise serious security concerns
Deal - which would require approval from US and Israel - would give L3Harris control over controversial Pegasus tool