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Woah. Trenchant, who develops zero-days and surveillance tools for Five Eyes intelligence agencies (US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). Has had an insider accused of selling secrets to Russia.
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Former L3Harris/Trenchant GM Peter Williams charged with stealing trade secrets. DOJ claims he made $1.3M from the sale.
Timeline: Williams allegedly stole 7 trade secrets between Apr '22-Jun '25, and an 8th between Jun-Aug '25. He was Trenchant's GM from Oct '24 until Aug '25, operating out of DC.
Worth noting that this comes on heels of recent internal Trenchant investigation into leaked hacking tools. Not yet clear if the two incidents are connected.
Full article on TechCrunch -
The criminal information doc is light on specifics - doesn't name the victim companies or detail nature of stolen trade secrets. But does list all the watches the FBI collected from him...
We can connect some dots based on what they do as a company.
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Arraignment/plea agreement hearing scheduled for Oct 29 in DC. Williams isn't currently in federal custody. His attorney John Rowley declined comment when contacted by TC.
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The U.S. Department of Justice accused Peter Williams, former general manager of L3Harris’ hacking division Trenchant, of stealing trade secrets and selling them to a buyer in Russia.
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