Ex-head of L3Harris unit pleads guility to stealing hacking tools, TC reports

U.S. prosecutors confirmed that Peter Williams, former head of L3Harris’ Trenchant, pleaded guilty to stealing and selling eight sophisticated hacking tools, earning over $1.3M in cryptocurrency between 2022 and 2025, TechCrunch’s Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports. Court filings state the tools were sold to a Russian company serving government clients, directly harming U.S. intelligence interests and potentially enabling widespread surveillance, cybercrime, and ransomware attacks globally.