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fromTheregister
6 days ago

L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia

Former L3Harris cyber executive Peter Williams received 87 months in prison for selling eight cyber exploits to Russian brokers via cryptocurrency, causing $35 million in losses to US national security.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 months ago

San Jose man headed to prison for stealing missile defense secrets

Chenguang Gong, a dual citizen of the United States and China, pleaded guilty on July 21 to one count of theft of trade secrets. Gong transferred more than 3,600 files from the Los Angeles-area research-and-development company he worked at briefly to personal storage devices, prosecutors said. The stolen files included blueprints for sensors designed to track and detect nuclear, ballistic and hypersonic missiles, as well as blueprints for sensors designed to enable U.S. fighter jets to detect and evade heat-seeking missiles, prosecutors said.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Australian man living in Washington DC pleads guilty to selling trade secrets to Russian broker

Australian contractor stole US national-security software trade secrets and sold them to a Russian cyber-tools broker; he pleaded guilty to theft charges.
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