--- title: Former L3Harris Trenchant boss jailed for selling... description: Peter Williams, former general manager of L3Harris Trenchant — a U.S. defense contractor division that develops hacking and surveillance tools including... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/former-l3harris-trenchant-boss-jailed-for-selling-hacking-tools-to-russian-broker-ykysjegfc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Former L3Harris Trenchant boss jailed for selling hacking tools to Russian broker | daily.dev og:description: Peter Williams, former general manager of L3Harris Trenchant — a U.S. defense contractor division that develops hacking and surveillance tools including... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/former-l3harris-trenchant-boss-jailed-for-selling-hacking-tools-to-russian-broker-ykysjegfc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YKySJegfC.png og:image:alt: Former L3Harris Trenchant boss jailed for selling hacking tools to Russian broker og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Former L3Harris Trenchant boss jailed for selling hacking tools to Russian broker **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Peter Williams, former general manager of L3Harris Trenchant — a U.S. defense contractor division that develops hacking and surveillance tools including zero-day exploits for the U.S. government and Five Eyes allies — was sentenced to seven years in prison. He pleaded guilty to stealing and selling seven Trenchant trade secrets to a Russian broker identified as Operation Zero, earning $1.3 million in cryptocurrency between 2022 and 2025. The DOJ alleged the sold tools could have enabled access to millions of devices worldwide. The U.S. Treasury simultaneously announced sanctions against Operation Zero, which claims to resell acquired exploits exclusively to the Russian government. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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