• Ex-L3Harris exec jailed for selling zero-days to Russian exploit broker February 25, 2026 03:21 AM 0 The former head of Trenchant, a specialized U.S. • defense contractor unit, was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in federal prison for stealing and selling zero-day exploits to a Russian exploit broker whose clients include the Russian government. • 39-year-old Australian national Peter Williams served as the general manager of Trenchant, a cybersecurity unit of defense contractor L3Harris that develops surveillance tools and zero-day exploits for the U.S. • government and its Five Eyes intelligence partners. • Between 2022 and 2025, Williams stole at least eight protected exploit components intended for the exclusive use of the U.S. • government and its allies and sold them to the Matrix Russian exploit broker (doing business as Operation Zero), which advertises itself as a reseller of hacking tools to non-NATO buyers.

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  • The former head of Trenchant, a specialized U.S. defense contractor unit, was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in federal prison for stealing and selling zero-day exploits to a Russian exploit broker whose clients include the Russian government. 39-year-old Australian national Peter Williams served as the general manager of Trenchant, a cybersecurity unit of defense contractor L3Harris that develops surveillance tools and zero-day exploits for the U.S. government and its Five Eyes intelligence partners. Between 2022 and 2025, Williams stole at least eight protected exploit components

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